Tagalog's Baybayin script

[milevidlor]

fILIPINO NA LANG SANA

[george6792k]

Sorry but this gentleman does not have too much of an idea what he is teaching. First of all, he misspelled BAYBAYIN by leaving out the first "Y" Second, he went on to explain the Baybayin writing for the Tagalog word "lahat" (everything, all) by pronouncing the word with the accent on the incorrect syllable. Thirdly, he should have mentioned that the word Baybayin is derived from the Tagalog word "baybay" meaning edge or border, with Baybayin meaning "to enumerate" or to spell.

[GodOfUnbelief]

I have no knowledge of phillipine languages whatsoever, but I think this script should be reintroduced as the standard script for Filipino instead of the currently used latin.

[fods202]

The Design of the Eksaya looks like Enochian ,,,Enochian is a Angels writing alphabet

[gelorave]

Good Job Man!

[TinTinKitty]

you have really nice hand writing ;D

i've been trying to write natural in baybayin script :D

[Marvisification]

it actually makes me feel good to see foreigners teaching(or learning) my home country's languages that I know or that I don't which in this case would be the Baybayin. more power to youlaoshu505000!

[Einstien1879]

KULANG DRE wala KA-- RA....: > )

[hbar45]

@Einstien1879 Pare, yung KA, yun yung "K" na nakikita mo. Yung RA naman, mahahanap mo yun sa DA, kasi parehas ang simbolo ng RA at DA. As for the uploader, I think your D is a bit off, by maybe a lot (hehe). Otherwise nice work :D

[Junhishiryu]

@Einstien1879 The characters for "R" don't exist.

[Einstien1879]

@Junhishiryu paki tingnan dito sa youtube .." baybayin abakada" me RA ang baybayin nya....

[Junhishiryu]

@Einstien1879 MEN!!!! I've watched it! SA PITONG TAON KONG PAG-AARAL NG ALIBATA, NGAYON LANG AKO NAKAKITA NG "R" SA ALIBATA! He just invented that character!

[GarF1eId]

@Junhishiryu it does in modernized forms. look at either Akopito's or Mine... or both. mine also has a lone N.

[dorobikoy]

i can't seem to write any word with a letter "R" on it, or is it just me?

[VINTONGFX]

dang! your better than the people of the Philippines today

[cArLofromcanada]

wow! ur the coolest guy evar!! haha! i was wondering what are those "kudlits" are for, and now i know, coz of u! good job!

[26faustine]

thanks for this vid! how do you write "Lla"? like Llamas? THANKS

[ThtOnePinoy]

There is also Eskayan script, from Bohol, very very advanced...

[Junhishiryu]

@ThtOnePinoy YEs. Too advance but is not applicable for writing. Try to write it by the way. Can you read those?

[ThtOnePinoy]

@Junhishiryu Well right now im focusing on Kulitan, a Kapampangan script that has it's own calligraphy system, and no, all these writings are applicable for writing, they can and should be used for official use too, you just need to learn.

[ThtOnePinoy]

guys, there's a lot of writing systems/sulats out there in the Philippines, Baybayin was not just the only one, that's the Tagalog's writing system.

Kulitan(Sulat Kapampangan), Hanunoo(Surat Mangyan), Suwat Bisaya, Baybayin(Sulat Tagalog), Tagbanwa, + many more out there I believe.

[bjap1563]

in ancient times,baybayin /alibata is being use to write tagalog and other dialects in

the philiipines(the script might be in different versions).

But when spaniards invade the phillipines,they remove the usage of the script and change it to latin alphabet.

so tagalog today was written in latin alphabet

[ThtOnePinoy]

@bjap1563 Not all of us used Baybayin, Hanunoo, Buhid, and Kulitan are very distinct from Baybayin and were used too.

[chearlc]

how would you write in Pinay in baybayin... thanks



[ThtOnePinoy]

@chearlc PI-NA-Y(terminating the vowel on the y, look at my profile picture on the left, it shows how to spell pinoy, for a vowels though, you do not use dots).

[Junhishiryu]

@chearlc Pi -na-i.

[pumatpatay]

wow nice... you akso know how to write alibata/baybayin... good work

[lancecyrus08]

some places here in Philippines  that still using that writing called alibata

[xxElitaOnexx]

You have all my respect laoshu. This may be the easiest and basic of all scripts in Asia because it was never allowed to flourish; but it's value is immense.  To have a foreigner learn and attempt to pass it on is amazing. Thank you. This is one piece of pre-hispanic history that we need to preserve and cherish.

[CO0KiE]

i'm getting STRENGTH as a tattoo next week, how do i write it? please!!

[adobo777]

@CO0KiE LAKAS

[Junhishiryu]

@CO0KiE Ka - la - ka - sa -n

[d03411]

Do you know of any sort of writing for the cebuano language or does baybayin work for that as well?

[ThtOnePinoy]

@d03411 Look up Suwat Bisaya, I believe Cebu used this one long ago.

[kj91gorre]

sir..it's " A B K D E GA HA" and it's Baybayin or Alibata..and its not originally tagalog its native visayan and mindanao.on ....the first people who live in the Philippines.. ^_^

[llcdem123]

the 'pa' should be tilted more to the side

[kagedJay]

WOW! I NEVER KNEW THERE WAS Another form of writing in the Philippines

[minjee90]

wow ᜋᜄᜎᜒᜅ᜔᜶ ("magaling" in baybayin) which means "good work" :)

[laoshu505000]

@minjee90 All I could see were boxes unfortunately

[DnLVaIn07]

@laoshu505000 download baibayin font so you can see it

[miraflorsaldua]

it's BA KA DA..it's not B K D....and don't forget to put that DA n RA has the same symbol...and it's not BABAYIN but BAYBAYIN..or "to spell" in english...

[ZOMBurlesque]

Is there a way to write a spanish N with a tilde in baybayan?

[virjel]

ALIBATA!! the former Font or ALPHABETS OF of the Philippine Language, ngayon ko lang to nakita dito sa you tube... well done sir..

[jeoulxi08]

how do i say MABUTING PUSO..........

ma-bu-ti- and how about NG?

plz help.......im getting a tats....xoxo

[surenanezz]

@jeoulxi08 add a cross under NGA character to make it NG. But there will soon be a movement to eradicate that rule in writing because, history tells, the Cross method is Spanish Based.

[DnLVaIn07]

ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔ ᜑᜒᜈ᜔ᜇᜒ ᜊᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔

[laoshu505000]

@DnLVaIn07 I couldn't see that. What type of font did you use?

[DnLVaIn07]

ᜒit's baybayin po.

[DnLVaIn07]

it's a Baybayin(Alibata) font Sir.

[TheYipedo]

@laoshu505000 He used the baybayin script, download it, go to baybayin's page at wiki, they give a good site there to download it from.

[fieldhockeychick212]

how do you do the letter "r"..

like for instance to spell "car"

[DnLVaIn07]

it's "DA" too or rather a combined "HA" and "PA" with a Virama or Kudlit.

[xxReonMeguxx]

baYbayin dude... not babayin..

[TheKaylaKali]

ok i have a question, what would be the proper way to spell BELNAS (its my middle name) ?!

would it be: BE (with the dot above) - LA+ - NA - SA+

or BA+ - E - LA+ - NA - SA+

or am i really off and its something else all together?

looking forward to hearing from you soon! thanks (:

[laoshu505000]

@TheKaylaKali I would say: Belnas= Be+L with the cross at the bottom+NA+ SA with the cross on the bottom.

[jaemodude]

@laoshu505000 i think thats not original alibata... its with spanish influence already... in the original u shud just put BE NA...ur just the one who will fill up the missing consonant

[8raysmedia]

@TheKaylaKali It would be Be-Na in traditional Baybayin

[TheFreshprinceofcali]

when i spell mark do i jst put ma-then k or jst ma?????

[laoshu505000]

@TheFreshprinceofcali I would say ma-ka, but make sure you put that plus sign under the ka to silence the a.

[TheFreshprinceofcali]

@laoshu505000 thank you so much

[StaRrySky]

great. i got educated a little today just watching your video.

[StaRrySky]

improve your tagalog by listening to TAYA by Up Dhrama Down. you'll love it. :)

[willieJ96786]

ur awsome but u know when it said na there has to be a squiggly line on the top of it

[chachau]

Some baybayin have "R" and "J".. such as the visayan baybayin.. And not all baybayin has the same forms of letters but the principles in writing are still the same.

more power to you!!

[chachau]

nya haa!!! there are different types of baybayin.. Some baybayin have letter "R" "J"..

[AARONeclipsePDI]

Good video. When I was in high school and the Vice President of the Filipino Society, I taught my peers Baybayin, Tagalog, and the history of the Philippines. I even taught it to Westerners and other Asians as well because they fell in love with its ease and artistic value. So its nice to see non Filipinos teaching it too because it makes me think of how my students may one day pass it on and maybe influence something in the future. :)

[MrFareddy]

I created my own modified Baybayin fonts. Go to google and type frederickvpa deviantart.

Or just type the keywords maharlikang tagalog, maalong tagalog, guhit baybayin or alfa-larawan.

[jhaycutie19]

bakit american ang nag iinstruct sa alibata nd naman pilipino yan

[asag2007]

It's very nice to see foreigners like you take interest on our old script. This script is still fashionably used in our university (as decoratives, that is.)

[skanthavelu]

@asag2007 I really enjoy the bayabayin script and have experimented with it on many occasions. Meaning, I would write something in Tagalog, ie: words I have learned in Tagalog, some Tagalog songs I know etc.. I wish that someday, baybayin would come back in use.

I can read and write baybayin fluently. I use the baybayin that was taught by one Bayani Mendoza De Leon in a book titled, "Baybayin: The Ancient Script of the Philippines".

[PLATOwithaSHOTGUN]

Thanks

[yajra360]

baybayin not babayin

[laoshu505000]

@yajra360 Maraming salamat kaibigan ko. Siya nga pala, taga saan ka at saan ka nakatira ngayon

[kiwehtin]

@laoshu505000 @rhycia @rhycia Actually, the "a ba ca da..." order comes from when Filipinos learned the Latin alphabet and then listed the Baybayin letters in the Spanish order (and then they replaced the "ca" with "ka"). The only order we have evidence for comes from the Doctrina Christiana that was published in Manila in 1593: they introduce the Tagalog Baybayin letters in this order: a u i h p k s l t n b m g d y n w.

[everythingasian17]

I appreciate you very much for doing this video. I really wish Filipinos in the Philippines would use this as second writing script after the Latin script. Just as English is used second from Tagalog. It would be very cool to just have our own writing with almost nobody understanding it except for us.

[grudger62896]

How do i write my name or what's my name in baybayin?

btw my name is joshua.

[zhelle0990]

i've learned of this thing just when i entered college XD.. ahahahha.. but anyway. this is so cool. i really wanna use this in the net.. but it doesn't allow though :3

[athenstar10]

I used to learn those in highschool and am fond of it, but then eventually I forgot most of it.

[TheAqruipnos]

the older script in luzon island is kavi.As shown in laguna copperplate inscriptions dated 822 A.D.)

[wayner396]

great job on the video, i enjoyed listening to it. I've been trying to learn some of the baybayin script since i love learning about other cultures and languages. :-D keep up the good work

[fartherasia]

actualy the word 'lahat' no longer be spelled as LA-HA only.. you can spell it LA-HA plus a T with a cross underneath... theres a free baybayin fonts you can download it for your microsoft words.

[july071992]

laoshu505000

if you're interested, you might wanna check out the kawi script from indonesia, the baybayin's parent script or you might wanna see the baybayin's sister scripts in the philippines like the mangyan and hanunuo script. :D

[laurenceKJ]

yo men u half flip or wat??? ;)

[kkbighani]

it's so easy to learn this Baybayin script.. very simple, original and unique ;)

[lastsuyan]

@kkbighani .. its easy to memorize baybayin but its hard to spell it... thats why so many people had a bad tattoo because of lack eduction of baybayin....

[dragon2298]

the + is called a cross kulit

and like he says it gets rid of the ah sound in the different sounds

also the regular kulit is the dot he talks about

but a few correction in his baybayin the B is actually Ba not just B and same for the K its Ka and D is Da but Da is also Ra too

[lastsuyan]

baybayin is hard to read!!..

as it easy to memorize...

[iLove2JacketXD]

no it isn't!

[lastsuyan]

@iLove2JacketXD ...really!???? hahah!. read the traditional one not the modern one!!.. ok read this

[flipo25rid]

wow, thanks for this.

[JcDizon]

It would be cool if this script gets used in a daily basis again in the Philippines although it would need to have some major reforms to modernize it a bit such as dividing the Da/Ra, E/I and O/U characters into two characters.

Did you know there was actually a more advanced script in the Philippines before this one was invented? It's called the Laguna Copperplate script and was used by the elite around 900 AD.

Anyway awesome video, I find it cool that a non-Filipino is teaching it on Youtube.

[plus24seven]

@JcDizon . there is a charater for the RA character now ;) ..

nordenx(dot)deviantart(dot)com­/art/Baybayin-Modern-Block-Fon­t-40486111

check 5th character from the right!! :)

[luvpinas123]

@JcDizon are you talking about the Palembang rock?

[ThtOnePinoy]

@JcDizon There are different and much more advanced scripts already in the Philippines, have you ever looked at Kulitan?

[flipxy]

@JcDizon I tried my best to learn the Kawi script, at least from the amount of material that I could find online. It's very close to the Javanese and Balinese scripts of today. I have to say, it is a lot easier to read Tagalog using the Kawi script, which is the predecessor to Baybayin

Unfortunately, It is already tragic that most Pinoys don't know that the Baybayin orthography exists let alone, that another more complex script existed before and possibly during the time of Baybayin.

[littlerock74]

Very Informative indeed,thanks for the upload.

[plus24seven]

hmm! in traditional writing system.. *LAHAT* should be.. La - Ha .. no Ta character... but ya great stuff man!.. keep uploading more of this!..

[ejkilla]

their are more then 15 letters in the babayin script.

[kvn024]

wow ive been livin in phil about 20 yrs ago and never knew this XD, Brandon Vera has tattoo of this babayin

[8raysmedia]

Too bad there's an error and an issue of the translation of Earth

[Hiatus35]

I've noticed there are a few styles of writing baybayin. Is there a standard or preferred way to write it? For example, your style is different from the ones you find on wikipedia (especially the A character).

[8raysmedia]

There are no standards. The difference you see are in regional pronunciation and personal handwriting.

[Arden808]

I was aware of this writing and it's really nice of you to teach people in your video. If only we used this writing method instead of the English alphabets. -_-; No offense on English.

[meyrink01]

you guys make more videos, so later then maybe they will bring the baybayin back! ^^

[anon2k10]

a beautiful, functional and easy to learn script, so why not ... great stuff, keep up the good work!

[rhycia]

and we don't write like that excuse me!!!

[laoshu505000]

Correct. Like I've mentioned in the video, in modern Tagalog, the latin words are written. For example:

''Hindi po ako mashadong marunong mag Tagalog''

This is the modern way. Baybayin is no longer used. Thanks for viewing my video.

[plus24seven]

@laoshu505000 baybayin is still use in filipino martial arts school man!.. just letting you know.

[athenstar10]

@laoshu505000 that's masyadong marunong. we actually don't use sh, we only have "sy" for the sh sound. Thanks for this video it refreshed my memory.

[rhycia]

it's baybayin not babayin... it's a ba ka da e ga ha i la ma na o pa ra sa ta u wa ya duh! that's so easy...

[laoshu505000]

Thanks for catching that error for me.

[rhycia]

you're welcome... well sorry i'm a filipina and proud to be one... so just check it sometimes people make us look dumb...

[SKULLxSNAPS]

im Filipino too and i got say you make yourself look an ass. typical Filipino easily offended.

anyway to the uploader. great post for the video, as being Filipino myself i was never aware that Tagalog had its own writing.

[kiwehtin]

@rhycia Actually, the "a ba ca da..." order comes from when Filipinos learned the Latin alphabet and then listed the Baybayin letters in the Spanish order (and then they replaced the "ca" with "ka"). The only order we have evidence for comes from the Doctrina Christiana that was published in Manila in 1593: they introduce the Tagalog Baybayin letters in this order: a u i h p k s l t n b m g d y n w. This might have been some kind of sentence to remember the letters: it might have "sulat" in it.

[kiwehtin]

@rhycia @rhycia Actually, the "a ba ca da..." order comes from when Filipinos learned the Latin alphabet and then listed the Baybayin letters in the Spanish order (and then they replaced the "ca" with "ka"). The only order we have evidence for comes from the Doctrina Christiana that was published in Manila in 1593: they introduce the Tagalog Baybayin letters in this order: a u i h p k s l t n b m g d y n w.