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Fig. 39. Philippine Alphabets. To right, 
modern Tagbanua alphabet incised on a 
slip of bamboo. Middle, ancient Tagalog 
alphabet, with letters turned to show simi- 
larity to the Tagbanua ones (the Tagalog 
characters come into proper position if the 
column is read as a horizontal line). Left, 
value of the letters in Roman characters. 
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