Online clips of calligraphy and digital fonts for Baybayin – a 17-character indigenous script last used hundreds of years ago – have gripped the digital generation and now it is appearing on ...

The ancient script can now be found on streetwear and trendy booze, in card games and tattoos and even on Filipina American singer H.E.R.’s attire. Filipino singer H.E.R. performs in "Beauty and ...

Once confined to history classes, Baybayin, a 17-character indigenous script used before Spanish colonization, is making a comeback among the nation’s millennials, young professionals and diaspora.

Baybayin, an ancient Filipino syllabary (written characters that represent syllables) is in the midst of a mini resurgence. New generations of Filipinos in Winnipeg are reclaiming the script ...

The Tagalog script baybayin fell out of use after Filipinos were made to adopt Spanish under colonial rule, but scholars are pushing to resurrect it A young artist has created a card game to teach ...

Screenshot from Philippine Journal of Science Researchers have high hopes that the study, and the succeeding research on Baybayin transliteration, will give a deeper understanding of the script.

Gino Palima Banola, a Filipino 3D designer in Dubai, has been promoting the ancient Filipino script here among diverse audiences DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Baybayin, a written form of ...

Access to learning the Baybayin script, a culturally and historically important ancient writing system in the Philippines, has been made possible for Filipinos and eager learners in Australia.

Baybayin is an ancient Philippine script that, for the most part, has ceased to exist in modern Filipino culture. That’s a shame though because it’s a reflection of the country’s rich ...

Owing to their outstanding cultural value, two 17th-century baybayin documents from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Archives were recently declared National Cultural Treasure (NCT) by the ...

Baybayin is actually more appropriate term than alibata. Speaking of etymology, it comes from the Tagalog root word "baybay" meaning to spell or from the word "pagbabaybay" or spelling.

Baybayin is an ancient Philippine script that, for the most part, has ceased to exist in modern Filipino culture. That’s a shame though because it’s a reflection of the country’s rich history — and it ...