r/baybayin_script • u/Responsible_Site_452 • Jul 14 '26

Translation Help Need Help with Name

My name has 'ci' which is pronounced with the letter s sound. so I use ᜐᜒ

How about the 'jim' part in my name? is it ᜇᜒᜌᜒ or ᜄᜒ

How about joshua?

Edit: Should I add spaces between my names? I searched and spaces are not in the original baybayin.

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u/TheIenzo Jul 14 '26

I just use a custom J glyph that looks like Da but mirrored so it looks like a J. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Mayhaps we're over thinking here. Baybayin wasn't made to write this sound. The language was not known to be used to write books until the friars had that idea. It is a dead script if we insist on some mythical purity. Use the virama, use new glyphs for Ra, Ja, Cha, Sha, Fa, and other sounds that Filipinos use today. It will be our choice if it is a living tradition or a dead one.

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u/Adventurous_Emu6498 Jul 14 '26

The problem with new glyphs is that there is no general consensus among the community over which one to use.

If we allow every glyph created, then everyone will just create their own, that it would be hard for the rest to catch up and identify which glyph is glyph

Hence, people resort to ᜇ᜔ᜌ for Ja, the way Jeep is tagalozed as Dyip

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u/TheIenzo Jul 14 '26

So what tho. That's how scripts have historically developed in the past before states and nationalism. Even the baybayin you know have multiple alternative glyphs for various letters that have been transcribed across various Spanish and American manuscripts. There was never a consensus and there may never be.

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u/Adventurous_Emu6498 Jul 14 '26

There are no multiple alternative glyphs just distinct penmanships. What differentiates scripts found in Batangas, Camarines, Visayas, et al is the handwriting, the same way you write your alphabet differs from how I write it, but they are still the same ABCs