• Baybayin is a script writing style related to Tagalog and other Filipino languages. It was used commonly through the late 1800s. The term "baybayin" literally means "syllables."

• Fast Facts

  1. AKA: Alibata
  2. Related spoken languages: Ilokano, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Tagalog, Bikol languages, Visayan languages
  3. Parent system: Proto-Canaanite alphabet
  4. Sister systems: Balinese, Batak, Buhid, Hanunó'o, Javanese, Lontara, Old Sundanese, Rejang, Tagbanwa

• Writing in Baybayin

  Baybayin is a abugida system using consonant-vowel combinations. Each character is a consonant ending with the vowel "a." To produce consonants with other vowel sounds, a mark is placed above or below the consonants. There is only one symbol for the letters D or R.

• Alibata

  Baybayin is commonly referred to as "Alibata." The term was invented in 1939 by Paul Versoza, a member of the National Language Institute.

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