Classroom history taught me that pre-Spanish syllabary was called “alibata.” By the time I started teaching, I was told the correct term was “baybayin.” Whoever coined alibata used the first three ...

In recent years, Baybayin tattoos have become a meaningful way for Filipinos to connect with Filipino roots. Often confused with alibata, Baybayin is a pre-colonial script unique to the Philippines.

A campaign to revive Baybayin or the alibata script, the writing system of pre-Hispanic Philippines that includes surat Mangyan, has been launched in the United States by cultural activist Norman de ...

CEBU, Philippines - Filipinos have since been taught that their ancient alphabet was “Alibata.” This may no longer be the case. Literary historian Virgilio “Rio Alma” Almario said that unlike what has ...

Planning to get a Baybayin tattoo? Before you engrave that onto your skin, hold off til you’ve seen Kristian Kabuay’s Instagram Planning to get a Baybayin tattoo? Before you engrave that Google ...

Baybayin is the written language of the Philippines. Originally called Alibata by historians, the language decreased in use after the introduction of the Latin alphabet by the Spanish in the 1600s.

Learners joined the Tagalog and Baybayin Script pogram at The Filipino Saturday School with Jade Cadelina and Mark Ong. As Filipinos continue their journey towards cultural preservation, Baybayin ...

For Christine Balza, Baybayin isn”t just an ancient writing system — it”s alive. “It”s more of a forgotten language,” Balza said, countering notions that the spidery Filipino script is dead. Balza, a ...

If you think that baybayin, or the alibata, as it has come to be known in recent times, is simply our Filipino ancestors’ way of writing, then the contents of “Baybayin Atbp.: Mga Pag-aaral at ...

SAN FRANCISCO, California — Filipino script artist Kristian Kabuay represented the Philippines and the diaspora in the International Workshop on Endangered Scripts of South East Asia on Feb. 28 at the ...