Kulitan Pamagkulit, Súlat Kapampángan | |
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![]() Modern Kulitan script | |
Script type | |
Time period | Old Kapampangan c.1600s[1] – 1900s Modern Kulitan 1900s – present |
Direction | Right-to-left script, top-to-bottom ![]() |
Languages | Kapampangan |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | |
Sister systems | In the Philippines: Baybayin Buhid Hanunó'o Tagbanwa script In other countries: Balinese Batak Javanese Lontara Sundanese Rencong Rejang |
Brahmic scripts |
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The Brahmi script and its descendants |
Kulitan, also known as súlat Kapampángan and pamagkulit, is one of the various indigenous suyat[3] writing systems in the Philippines. It was used for writing Kapampangan, a language mainly spoken in Central Luzon, until it was gradually replaced by the Latin alphabet.
Kulitan is an abugida, or an alphasyllabary — a segmental writing system in wherein consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit and possess an inherent vowel sound that can be altered with use of diacritical marks. There is a proposal to encode the script in Unicode by Anshuman Pandey, from the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley.[4] There are also proposals to revive the script by teaching it in Kapampangan-majority public and private schools.[3]