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The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (Filipino: Inskripsyón sa binatbát na tansô ng Laguna) is an official acquittance (debt relief) certificate inscribed onto a copper plate in the Shaka year 822 (Gregorian A.D. 900).
Nov 20, 2015 · The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is the name of an inscription written on an artifact that has great significance for the understanding of the history of the Philippines during the 10th century AD – a time when many scholars believed that the area was isolated from the rest of Southeast Asia.
The Laguna Copperplate is a thin piece of blackened metal that was purchased by the National Museum of the Philippines in 1990 after the former owner failed to find a private buyer. Following a careful examination of the plate, it was found to be a 20 cm square copperplate covered on one side by a ten-line inscription of finely written characters.
Jul 14, 2006 · Click on the picture for a modern transcription. and see how Filipinos spoke in the year 900. In 1990, Antoon Postma, a Dutch expert in ancient Philippine scripts and Mangyan writing, and a long-time resident of the Philippines, translated the document that came to be known as the Laguna Copperplate Inscription (LCI).
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is one of very few Philippine historical documents dating from the precolonial period and the only one bearing information on the social life of the Manila region before the arrival of the Spanish.
I decided to call it the Laguna Copper-Plate Inscription or LC1 for short. The script appeared to me rather similar to the standard form of the Early Kawi Script used around the tenth century A.D. (Stutter- heim 1940, 3-28) like the OJ Randoesari inscription of Central Java, dated 905 A.D. (Stutterheim 1940, 3-28).
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is one of very few Philippine historical documents dating from the precolonial period and the only one bearing information on the social life of the Manila region before the arrival of the Spanish.
The Philippine Copper-Plate Inscription. In January 1990, a crumpled, blackened, thin piece of metal was offered for sale to the National Museum in Manila, after previous. efforts to sell it to the world of antiques had met with little interest. The attractive aspect of this plate of copper (as laboratory analysis.
The Laguna Copperplate Inscription is the name of an inscription written on an artifact that has great significance for the understanding of the history of the Philippines during the 10th century AD...
The current model of proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) holds that a unitary language was spoken in the Luzon Straits roughly four thousand years ago and that this diversified into all the extra-Formosan languages and was responsible for the Neolithic settlement of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and Oceania.
