Baybayin the Syllabic Alphabet of the Tagalogs

When the Spaniards conquered the Philippines (Cebu 1565 Manila 1571) they noticed several of its nations had a writing system of their own called Baybáyin in Tagalog. It was a king of short-hand that did not make it possible to record closing consonants; thus i-lu in Baybáyin could represent í-log river i-lóng nose or it-lóg egg so much so that while easy to write it was difficult to read. Because of this shortcoming it gave way to the Latin alphabet in the course of the 17th century. Nowadays F...See More