Baybayin. dili baybayon sa dagat. Mao ni ang kinaraang sinulatan natong mga Pilipino sa kaniadto nga wala pa ta nagbarkada barkada nilang Magellan ug Legaspi. Kaning baybayin nga sinulatan mag-agaw ra ni sila sa Brahmic nga pamilya sa India. Gigamit ni hangtod sa ika dese nueve nga siglo.
It is an ancient pre-colonial Philippine writing system. It is a member of the Brahmic family of India and is recorded as being in use in the 16th century. It continued to be used during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines up until the late 19th Century.
The University of Santo Tomas Archives in Manila, one of the largest archives in Philippines, currently possesses the biggest collection of extant ancient baybayin scripts in the world.
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image here from the Lopez Memorial Museum and Library.
I think I'll get inked with this kind of writing. Makes me more Filipino.
sources:
Brise La Mer Mental Flatuscence Creative Gestalter (Imagination ReImagined) Mythopoeia Filipiniana: Baybayin (Ancient Pre-Hispanic Native Philippine Script and Syllabary) and the Order of Lakandula