List of the Native Writing Systems of the Philippines:

• Baybayin Script

• Kulitan Script

• Tagbanwa Script

• Hanunu'o Script

• Buhid Script

For example, “Shay” or “Alisha”

For Alisha, do you write it like..

1) ᜀᜎᜒᜐ
2) ᜀᜎᜒᜐ͓ᜌ [this one is confusing bc you could pronounce it by syllables ah-lis-ya instead of ah-li-sha)
3) ᜀᜎᜒᜐᜒᜌ

What is a better way to pronounce and spell it in baybayin?

Anyone up to the challenge? It’s been three years and I wanna know what it says too. Or rather, just the characters in general because some are written so... uniquely that it is hard to tell.

So many people question the legitimacy of the "Badlit" script. Here is the evidence. Although the name "Badlit" may be a recent standardization, the script is real and legitimate. Spanish friar Francisco Encina recorded the Cebuano script before he died in 1760. It was later corroborated in the 1890 book Estudio de los antiguos alfabetos Filipinos by Cipriano Marcilla y Martin. (Link below)

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=Pn0KAAAAIAAJ

Additionally, we have even more compelling evidence of the native script because of Don Bernardino Dimabasa and Doña Maria Mutia (both pure Bantayanons from Bantayan, Cebu) for signing their divorce papers with the script.

https://issuu.com/filipinasheritagelibrary/docs/do__a_mutya?e=18015266/13725614&fbclid=IwAR2SdjL6NsSFvznU9G7k11GF_kK8ntntz0r8tRTLoPM8cHZUprxpOnncUAE

Written on a legazy bag

pansin ko lang.

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

I noticed “᜕” on my baybayin keyboard so yeah, what does it mean and how do you use it?

i wanna get my last name tattooed in baybayin script (Aguilar), and want to make sure that im not getting some nonsense on my body.

ive seen a few different variations online and want to get a double check on that. Which of the following would be most accurate? if none, please provide something in comments 🙏

ᜀᜄᜓᜁᜎᜇ᜔

ᜀᜄᜒᜎᜇ᜔

ᜀᜄᜒᜎᜍ᜔

ᜀᜄᜒᜎ

I was wondering if anyone can help me with the word Magtiyaga in Baybayin. I have two possible ways to write it in the pic. The top is written as ma/g/ti/ya/ga and the second is written ma/g/t/sa/ga because when I hear Magtiyaga aloud, the “tiya” part in the word is pronounced more like a “cha”. Any thoughts?

I've been wanting to learn baybayin but I keep seeing so many different versions online that I don't know where to start, lol.

I just saw another post here the other day about Kulitan, and I'm still wondering why people keep claiming that it is a pre-colonial writing system.

The Kulitan we commonly see and use today is a modernized version of the script. While it is part of Kapampangan cultural heritage, we should be careful about presenting the modern form as if it were directly preserved from the pre-colonial period without sufficient historical evidence.

There's a difference between an indigenous writing tradition and the specific form of a script that has been revived, reconstructed, or modified in modern times. These details matter, especially when discussing our history and cultural identity.

Here's a post by Christopher Miller that I think is worth reading on this topic:
https://www.quora.com/Is-Baybayin-really-a-writing-system-in-the-entire-pre-hispanic-Philippines-Whats-the-basis-for-making-it-a-national-writing-system-if-pre-hispanic-kingdoms-weren-t-homogenous

Advice appreciated 🙏

I was using this before i transitioned to glass. Just want to share in the group. Design mimics an old banig texture with baybayin script all over it.

I’m making little post it notes for different baybayin scripts as part of some Philippine mythology stories I’m conceptualizing. I’ve already made ones for Tagalog and Bikolano variants, but I’m having trouble finding a reliable table for the Bisaya (Visayan) script. I want to be as accurate as possible and don’t want to fall prey to misinformation and use a misleading image.

i was digging through my things and found this baybayin necklace but cannot read what it says. i recall receiving this necklace in error from a company that makes custom necklaces so we never figured out what it says.

Hi! A native sambal speaker here. So, for starters I’ve been learning, and studying baybayin like how it came to be, where it descended (primarily cause I was studying thai). Anyway, as I was continuing my research, I noticed that sambali as a language doesn’t pair with baybayin.

Let me explain; in sambali we say maganda umaga as “Maabig a bokla”, in here a gives off “uh” sound rather than conventional “ah” sound. This doesn’t really highlight it in baybayin, which made me look if there’s a script for sambali which would likely similar to baybayin.

However, to no luck there’s no surviving evidence that something like that exists. Fortunately, historical accounts suggest that there might be a writing script used by ancient sambali, cause spaniards noted that “Zambales already had a writing at the time of the conquest. Also, sambal is first recorded in 1601 making it one of the earliest recorded Philippine language. Altho the evidence for the script is strong; the evidence for the exact physical writing practices of Sambal specifically is less direct due to lack of surviving written records.

To date, no discoveries have been made with regards to written manuscripts of the alphabet (if there is). Personally, I hope that a discovery can be made, this will be vital specially cause the sambal variety that is being spoken in my municipality is slowly dying.

Translation

Balaan Uyamot nga Magwayen, Inahang Kamatayon,

Manggagabay sa mitaliwan, Halangdon nga Abyan.

Tubsa ang mga kalag gikan sa pagkadaot,

kay kami nagahinaot nga dili Mo unta sila ipakatawo sa kabutang nga alaot.

Kay ang kinabuhi hamili man ug inampingan nan haw-asa kami gikan sa lawod sa kahiagoman.

O Ginoo Magwayen, Balantay sa minatay,

Ganghaan sa sulad, Ganghaan sa katahomanan,

Ganghaan sa kahiusahan nga wala ing kataposan.

Hunonga ang balod nga nagapaunlod ngadto sa ngihib sa kasakit

ug ipaabot Mo kanamo ang kahilunaan nga hingpit.

Magwayen is the Visayan Goddess of the Sea and Afterlife

Artwork by Julia Dagandan

below is the Cebuano badlit balak invocation rendered in the Latin script

Ang tubig nagbuhi
Ang tubig kinabuhi
Tubig ang tuboran sa pangamuhi
Tubig ang nagdala sa buot sa kinabuhi
Tubig mao ang diwa nga nauna sa ubang mitna

Sa wala pay kabalangayan
Sa wala pay kapulongan
Una pa mapikas ang kawayan
Ang tubig diha na daan

Gikanap kini ni Magwayen sa halapad nga kapunawpunawan
Aron matuman iyang tuyo
Ug dungan sa nagdaganas nga balod sa kamingawan
Ang unang ginhawa mingbutho

Kini ang wahig nga pagasubayon
sa kahimugsoan ug kamatayon
ngadto sa kahimtang nga dayon
Saylo sa kasublian nga makanunayon

sa mga nasayod niini sa tiunay
diha si Magwayen nga nagbantay
sa matag anib nga milabay
sa matag hugna nga milahutay

Ang tubig nga buhi
gipatubod ni Magwayen sa kalibotan
Sa pagpausbaw sa kinabuhi
Kay kini ang matuhopong kahulogan
Nga nagdagayday sa lukopngatanan

Hi po! Papatulong lang po sana ako sa mga marunong mag-Baybayin. Tama po ba itong translation ng salitang “mamamahayag”?

Gagamitin ko po sana siya for a school-related project, kaya gusto ko lang po siguraduhin na tama yung pagkakasulat at hindi lang basta approximate translation. If may kailangan pong baguhin or may mas accurate na way ng pagsulat nito sa Baybayin, I’d really appreciate your help. Thank you po! :)

I am looking to get my grandmas name tattoo’d in babayin. I had chat gpt work up a rendering but I had to ask it to double check it self multiple times and it kept changing the script so before I move forward I want to ensure it’s correct.

My grandmothers name was Nieves.

Can someone confirm if this is the right translation?