Baybayin
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Baybayin, also sometimes erroneously referred to as alibata, is a Philippine script that was widely used in Luzon during and prior to the 16th and 17th centuries. It was utilized primarily to write Ta
A Filipino dha scabbard inscribed with baybayin characters
Baybayin characters found in Zambales
Characters based on the typography used in the Ilocano 1620 work, Libro a Naisuratan amin ti bagas ti Doctrina Cristiana
Ancient Characters of Tagalog and Camarines peoples, also called Basahan in the Bicol region
Abugida
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An abugida —sometimes also called an alphasyllabary, neosyllabary, or pseudo-alphabet—is a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a con
Baybayin
…primarily to write Tagalog, and to a lesser extent, Visayan languages, Kapampangan, Ilocano, and several other Philippine languages. Baybayin is an abugida belonging to the family of the Brahmic scripts. Its use was gradually replaced by the Latin alphabet during Spanish rule, though it has seen limited…
A 19th-century manuscript in the Devanagari script
The Geʽez script, an abugida of Eritrea and Ethiopia