Learn Baybayin

Baybayin (ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔), was the pre-colonial Tagalog writing system that is a direct descendant of Kavi, the script used to write Old Javanese. It has seventeen characters where three of them are vowels (a, e/i, o/u). Baybayin script is an 'Abugida', not an 'Alphabet'. An abugida differs from an alphabet by the fact that in an abugida, any diacritics written above or below a character changes its readings. center Baybayin then and now Baybayin eventually died out as the Latin alphabet introduced by the Spaniards continued to be imposed in the colonial era. Nowadays, that script is used mainly for aesthetic purposes; on the Philippine banknotes, Philippine passport and sometimes in the logos of some Philippine government agencies. Many Filipino politicians wanted to make it the national writing system of the Philippines. Many Filipinos are now learning it as a hobby. Note: To use this book, your web browser must first be configured to display (Baybayin) characters. Check the box below: ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔ If the characters in the grey box above appear as blank boxes or garbage such as �?�?􏿾, it is not properly configured. Exercise Learn how to read and write Baybayin script, so you can practice reading and writing Baybayin. __NOTOC__ Languages of Asia B 25%