Baybayin
Sign in to saveBaybayin (, ), also sometimes erroneously referred to as alibata, is a Philippine script widely used primarily in Luzon during the 16th and 17th centuries and prior to write Tagalog and to a lesser extent Visayan languages, Kampampangan, Ilocano, and several other Philippine languages.
Key facts
- Writing system.name
- Baybayin
- Writing system.type
- Abugida
- Writing system.caption
- Tagalog script ("Sulat Tagalog"), based on traditional rules and handwritten UST Baybayin Documents, with accurate syllable-to-character mapping
- Writing system.languages
- Tagalog, Bisayan languages, Sambali, Ilocano, Kapampangan, Bikol, Pangasinan, Sanskrit
- Writing system.fam1
- Egyptian
- Writing system.fam2
- Proto-Sinaitic
- Writing system.fam3
- Phoenician
- Writing system.fam4
- Aramaic
- Writing system.fam5
- Brahmi script
- Writing system.fam6
- Tamil-Brahmi script
- Writing system.fam7
- Pallava script
- Writing system.fam8
- Kawi script
- Writing system.sisters
- Balinese script Batak script Javanese script Lontara script Makasar script Sundanese script Ulu scripts Rejang script
- Writing system.children
- Buhid script Hanunuo script Kulitan Tagbanwa script
- Writing system.time
- –present
- Writing system.unicode
- U+1700–U+171F
- Writing system.sample
- Sulat Tagalog sample.svg
- Writing system.imagesize
- 250px
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Article
31 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- Characteristics
- Letters
- Diacritics
- Punctuation and spacing
- Alphabetical order
- Way of writing
- History
- Indian origins
- Kawi
- South Sulawesi scripts
- Cham script
- Early history
- Usage during the Spanish colonial period
- Decline
- Contemporary usage and revival
- Derivative scripts
- Sample texts
- Article one of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Motto of the Philippines
- National anthem
- Unicode
- Block
- Keyboard
- Gboard
- Philippines Unicode Keyboard Layout with {{Lang|tl|baybayin}}
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Works cited
- External links
Baybayin (, ), also sometimes erroneously referred to as alibata, is a Philippine script widely used primarily in Luzon during the 16th and 17th centuries and prior to write Tagalog and to a lesser extent Visayan languages, Kampampangan, Ilocano, and several other Philippine languages.
Baybayin is an abugida belonging to the family of the Brahmic scripts. Its use was gradually replaced by the Latin alphabet during Spanish rule, though it has seen limited modern usage in the Philippines. The script is encoded in Unicode as Tagalog block since 1998 alongside Buhid, Hanunoo, and Tagbanwa scripts. The Archives of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila holds the largest collection of extant writings using Baybayin.