Baybayin
Proper noun
Meaning
Baybayin
A writing system used in the Philippines.
Examples
A commendable effort by the local government unit of Manila in keeping the Filipino culture alive is its recent installation of various Baybayin signage placed at the entry and exit points of the newly renovated Lagusnilad underpass.
Although it enjoyed a relatively high level of literacy, Baybayin gradually fell into disuse in favor of the Latin alphabet taught by the Spaniards during their rule.
These include the posts along national highway, subdivisions, and lanes in the following barangays: Bambang, Batong Malake, Bayog, Baybayin, Malinta, Mayondon, and Putho-Tuntungin.
Not every letter in the Latin alphabet is represented with one of those in the Baybayin alphasyllabary.
Rather than letters being put together to make sounds as in Western languages, Baybayin uses symbols to represent syllables.
The Doctrina was written in Spanish and two transcriptions of Tagalog; one in the ancient, then-current Baybayin script and the other in an early Spanish attempt at a Latin orthography for the language.