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Baybayin
Type	Abugida
Spoken languages	Ilokano Kapampangan Pangasinan Tagalog Bikol languages Visayan languages other languages of the Philippines
Time period	c. An abugida ( from Ge‘ez አቡጊዳ ’äbugida or Amharic አቡጊዳ ’abugida is a segmental Writing system which To view the Ilokano edition of this Wikipedia article select from the in other languages section to the side of this page Kapampangan is one of the major Languages of the Philippines. The Pangasinan language (Pangasinan salitan Pangasinan; Spanish: idioma pangasinense, sometimes called Panggalatok belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian Tagalog is one of the major languages used in the Philippines. For the languages spoken in Bicol Region, see Languages of Bicol. The Visayan languages of the Philippines, along with Tagalog and Bikol, are part of the Central Philippine language family In Philippines there are over 170 languages almost all of them belong to the Austronesian language family. 1300–20th century
Parent systems	Proto-Canaanite alphabet → Phoenician alphabet → Aramaic alphabet → Brāhmī → Pallava → Old Kawi → Baybayin
Sister systems	Balinese Batak Buhid Hanunó'o Javanese Lontara Old Sundanese Rejang Tagbanwa
Unicode range	U+1700–U+171F
ISO 15924	`Tglg`

Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on The Proto-Canaanite alphabet is a consonantal alphabet of twenty-two acrophonic glyphs found in Levantine texts of the Late Bronze Age (from ca The Phoenician alphabet is a continuation of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, by convention taken to originate around 1050 BC The Aramaic alphabet is an Abjad, a Consonantal Alphabet, used for writing Aramaic. Brāhmī script refers to the oldest members of the Brahmic family of alphabets. Vatteluttu () or "rounded writing" is an Abugida Writing system originating from the Dravidian peoples of Southern India and The Balinese script is an Abugida that was used to write the Balinese language, an Austronesian language spoken by about three million people on the The Batak script, called locally the surat Batak, is an Abugida that is used to write the Batak language of northern Sumatra, an Buhid (ᝊᝓᝑᝒ is an indigenous Brahmic script of the Philippines, and is used today by the Mangyans to write in their language Hanunó'o is one of the indigenous scripts of the Philippines; see Baybayin. The Javanese script, natively known as Carakan ( Tjarakan) is the script originally used to write Javanese. The Lontara script is an Indic script traditionally used for writing several languages of Sulawesi in Indonesia such as the Bugis language, the The Rejang script, sometimes spelt Redjang and locally known as Surat Ulu ('upstream script' is an Abugida of the Brahmic family, and is related Tagbanwa, also known as Apurahuano, is one of the indigenous Writing systems of the Philippines. Unicode ’s ISO 15924, Codes for the representation of names of scripts, defines two sets of codes for a number of Writing systems (scripts In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's

Baybayin or Alibata (known in Unicode as the Tagalog script) is a pre-Spanish Philippine writing system that originated from the Javanese script Old Kawi. In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP A writing system is a type of Symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in Language. Java (Jawa is an Island of Indonesia and the site of its Capital city Jakarta. The writing system is a member of the Brahmic family (and an offshoot of the Vatteluttu alphabet) and is believed to be in use as early as the 14th century. The Brahmic family is a family of syllabaries (writing systems used in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and parts of Central Asia and East Asia, Vatteluttu () or "rounded writing" is an Abugida Writing system originating from the Dravidian peoples of Southern India and It continued to be in use during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines up until the late 19th Century. The Philippines ( Filipino: Pilipinas, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (fil ''Republika ng Pilipinas'' RP The term baybayin literally means syllables. Closely related scripts are Hanunóo, Buhid, and Tagbanwa. Hanunó'o is one of the indigenous scripts of the Philippines; see Baybayin. Buhid (ᝊᝓᝑᝒ is an indigenous Brahmic script of the Philippines, and is used today by the Mangyans to write in their language Tagbanwa, also known as Apurahuano, is one of the indigenous Writing systems of the Philippines.

1 Usage
2 Characters in Base form
3 Unicode
4 See also
5 External links
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Usage

The writing system is an abugida system using consonant-vowel combinations. An abugida ( from Ge‘ez አቡጊዳ ’äbugida or Amharic አቡጊዳ ’abugida is a segmental Writing system which Each character, written in its basic form, is a consonant ending with the vowel "A". To produce consonants ending with the other vowel sounds, a mark is placed either above the consonant (to produce an "E" or "I" sound) or below the consonant (to produce an "O" or "U" sound). The mark is called a kudlit. The kudlit does not apply to stand-alone vowels. Vowels themselves have their own glyphs. There is only one symbol for D or R as they were allophones in most languages of the Philippines, wherein D fell in initial, final, pre-consonantal or post-consonatal positions and R in intervocalic positions. In Philippines there are over 170 languages almost all of them belong to the Austronesian language family.

In its original form however, a stand-alone consonant (consonants not ending with any vowel sound) cannot be produced, in which case these were simply not written and the reader would fill in the missing consonants through context. This method, however, was particularly hard for the Spanish priests who were translating books into the native language. Because of this Father Francisco Lopez introduced his own kudlit in 1620 that eliminated the vowel sound. The kudlit was in the form of a "+" sign, in reference to Christianity. Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings This cross-shaped kudlit functions exactly the same as the virama in the Devanagari script of India. Virama is a generic term for the Diacritic character in many Brahmic scripts that is used to suppress an inherent Vowel sound that occurs with every consonant India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country In fact, Unicode calls this kudlit the Tagalog Sign Virama.

Characters in Base form

e/i

o/u

ka	ga	nga
ta	da/ra	na
pa	ba	ma

Unicode

The Unicode range for Babayin is U+1700–U+171F, where it is called Tagalog. In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points.

Tagalog Unicode.org chart (PDF)
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
U+170x	ᜀ	ᜁ	ᜂ	ᜃ	ᜄ	ᜅ	ᜆ	ᜇ	ᜈ	ᜉ	ᜊ	ᜋ	ᜌ		ᜎ	ᜏ
U+171x	ᜐ	ᜑ	ᜒ	ᜓ	᜔

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The Laguna Copperplate inscription (also shortened to LCI) is the first written document found in a Philippine language. The Filipino alphabet (officially Makabagong alpabetong Filipino; English: Modern Filipino alphabet) is made up of 28 letters which includes the entire

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Usage

Characters in Base form

Unicode

See also

External links

Font downloads