One of Postma's most significant achievements was his decipherment of the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, dated 900 A.D. His commentary, published in Philippine Studies in 1992, provided evidence of complex socio-political and cultural interactions in the archipelago prior to Spanish colonization.

He also brought renewed attention to early Filipino texts, including the Vocabulario Tagalo, the oldest Tagalog-Spanish dictionary compiled from unpublished manuscripts.

Recognition

In March 2009, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands

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