Baybayin
June 20, 2008Today, almost all Philippine languages are written in the script which you yourself, I am sure, are using and reading now, everyday and for all of your life. That is, unless you are Chinese, Russian or Japanese, the Roman alphabet. However, almost all Philippine languages did not use this European alphabet before; before European colonisation and settlement, educated Filipinos used the Baybayin or at least a variant of it.
Baybayin, sometimes called Alibata, is a writing system, commonly reffered to as a script, used by early Filipinos since the 13th century through seven centuries of decline until its final obsoletion during the 20th; and that is why you can never see a modern document written in such script, or, at least, that is the mainstream situaton due to a number of people nowadays who are still advocating its use. Baybayin is commonly reffered to as an alphabet, however, that is false. Baybayin is an abugida. Both alphabets and abugidas are scripts, and their differences will be explain later in this post.
As you may have noticed, “e” and “i”, ”o” and “u”, and “d” and “r” are represented by the same characters. This is due to the fact that those are interchangeable phonemes; that is their pronunciation depends on their position on the word. This is true even until today in modern Tagalog orthography; that is why from Tagalog comes Katagalugan, and from dumi comes marumi. I explain this in future posts. As you may have also noticed, the last character in the image has a “+” below it. This inovation was introduced by the Spaniards when they first translated Doctrina Cristiana into Ilokano; previous language editions of Doctrina Cristiana, the first book to be ever published in the Philippines, like the one in Tagalog, do not use viramas, which is what the “+”’s are called. What this does is simply removing the vowel sound itself from the character so as baboy can be spelled as ba-bo-y in Baybayin not in ba-bo, the original one. This is because originally trailing consonant sounds were never indicated hence forcing Baybayin-readers to guess the trailing consonant sounds through context thus making it hard to be learned and used specially by non-natives like the Spaniards. In the simplest of terms, Spaniards added the virama so that it will be easier for them to use.
There are many variants of Baybayin as each major language has its own. You can notice on the following image that the Tagalog Baybayin has the same characters for “d” and “r” however other Baybayins like the Ilokano has the same characters for “l” and “r”. This also due to the interchangeability of the phonemes, and are to be discussed in future posts.
Currently, Baybayin is supported in Unicode however there is no existing font up to day that supports it. I know that you may have heard of Tagalog Doctrina, Bikol Mintz and others, however, those do not actually use the Unicode range for Baybayin but merely change the look of the common alphabet letters just as Wingdings does. To get the fonts, you may go here http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/fonts.htm, and for more information go here at http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/index.htm#baybayin. The above table is from that site, and the rest are from http://commons.wikimedia.org/.
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My Modified Baybayins
Hi, I’m Frederick Victor Paredes Añana, a Fine Arts graduate of Far Eastern University , Philippines . I designed my own modified Baybayin called Maharlikang Tagalog. It has three versions.
Visit the links below (from Omniglot.com) to check them out:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/maharlikang.php
For Archaic Version 1, see http://www.omniglot.com/writing/maharlikang.php#archaic1
For Archaic Version 2, see http://www.omniglot.com/writing/maharlikang2.php#archaic2
For The Simplified Version, see http://www.omniglot.com/writing/maharlikang3.php#simp
I also designed, Alfa-kinetix, a modified Baybayin with moving diacritics (or vowel markers).
See http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alfakinetix.php
I used Coreldraw and Macromedia Flash to design my Baybayins.
Then I exported them as gif image files. So what do you think? What’s your comment / reaction about my modified Baybayins.
Hi Frederick Victor Paredes Añana, I’ve seen your work on the script, and they are great. I just wanted to ask if you’ve already done some fonts out of it? If not, will you allow me to convert them into usable fonts? I’m running a site written in Baybayin, and it would be great if your fonts could be used there. the site is http://banyuhay.co.cc (you will need the Baybayin Unicode font in order to view the site correctly.)
For sir felipaira, Paul Morrow’s fonts have Unicode mappings for the glyphs, although it is true that he also substituted the Latin glyphs with Baybayin, he also included the Unicode equivalent of the glyphs. In my Baybayin Unicode Font, I simply added the Unicode range for Philippine scripts to an existing Unicode font. Visit http://banyuhay.co.cc to look at Baybayin in action!
Posted by marfealsantiago at January 25, 2009, 3:59 pmHi, I’m Frederick Victor Paredes Añana, the creator of Maharlikang Tagalog Baybayin.
( For details, see http://www.omniglot.com/writing/maharlikang.php)
Before you decide to use my modified Baybayins, please send to me your comments and reactions to fvpa81@yahoo.com.
Your messages will be deeply appreciated.
Posted by Frederick Victor Paredes Añana at February 1, 2009, 8:33 pmHi guys, I’ll be featuring more of your work on Baybayin.com
Posted by Christian Cabuay at April 15, 2009, 1:28 pmHi, I’m Frederick Victor Paredes Añana, the creator of Maharlikang Tagalog Baybayin.
( For details, see http://www.omniglot.com/writing/maharlikang.php)
I have a Baybayin blog that is currently under construction:
http://fmbsmainpage.blogspot.com/
from fvpa81@yahoo.com
Posted by Frederick Victor Paredes Añana at April 27, 2009, 12:35 pmFred’s Modified Baybayins
Hi, I’m Frederick Victor Paredes Añana, the creator of Maharlikang Tagalog Baybayin.
( For details, see http://www.omniglot.com/writing/maharlikang.php)
I am currently constructing a blog about my attempts to modify the Baybayin writing system.
http://fmbsmainpage.blogspot.com/
from fvpa81@yahoo.com
Posted by Frederick Victor Paredes Añana at April 30, 2009, 3:53 ammaaari nyo po ba maisalin sa baybayin ang awit na ito:
” Ang irog ko’y akin lamang, at sa kanya naman ako ”
salamat po.
Posted by Awie Gaspar at August 26, 2009, 10:51 amHi, I’m, Frederick Victor Paredes Añana, the creator of Maharlikang Tagalog Baybayins & Alfa-kinetix.
Good news! You can now download and install the TTF (True Type Font) versions of my modified Baybayins. Just click the links below:
For Guhit Baybayin, http://frederickvpa.deviantart.com/art/Guhit-Baybayin-True-Type-Font-144086070
For Maharlikang Tagalog - Archaic Version 1,
http://frederickvpa.deviantart.com/art/Maharlikang-Tagalog-AV-1-146520086
After you have successfully downloaded & installed True Type Fonts, you must first read my e-book called Fred’s Baybayin Keyboard Guides to learn the correct keys & key combinations for typing the Baybayin symbols.
Just click the link below:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22750629/Fred-s-Mod-Bayb-Guides
So what’s your reaction? Please reply.
-from fvpa81@yahoo.com
Napakahusay!
I’ve been researching for the past couple of months at lahat po kayo nandito ngayon eh nabisita ko na ang kanya-kanyang websites. 
Mayruon rin po akong website about Baybayin. I used Marfealsantiago’s Baybayin Typepad, thanks po pala. I got it from JC.
Sir Felipe, humihingi po ako ng pahintulot na maisama ko ang pook-sapot ninyo sa aking mga kawing. Salamat po!
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Baybayin is a script that Luvano/pinoy of he Luvimiah should be proud of!!!! Untill this days Baybayin is still in used,thats because of some Filipinos/Luvano still recognized the important of Script in their long history of being a Seafarer.
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