This photo taken on June 22, 2019 shows artist Taipan Lucero doing calligraphy using the indigenous script known as Baybayin, used before Spanish colonisation in 1521, at an event in Manila. - From ...

Can you imagine making a grocery list in Baybayin script? The idea is not far-fetched. Last April, the House Committee on Basic Education and Culture approved the proposed “National Writing System Act ...

A young Philippine artist and freelance illustrator has created a card game she hopes will inspire her countrymen to help revive the written language used by their ancestors. Patricia Ramos hopes her ...

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According to the mathematicians, the smart system is likely the first in the world to convert Baybayin words to Latin alphabet MANILA, Philippines – Filipino mathematicians have developed a smart ...

Calligraphy workshops that are popular among crafty millennials usually involve European-style cursive and splashy watercolor backgrounds but what about the Philippines’ very own Baybayin? The good ...

AERIAL shot the UST Miguel de Benavides Library Building, which houses UST Archives REGALADO Trota Jose with the ancient documents on his desk at UST Archives. Owing to their outstanding cultural ...

MAASIN CITY (PIA)—The provincial government of Southern Leyte and the local government of Limasawa initiated a five-day skills training on pot replica painting and Baybayin lettering with local youth ...

Baybayin, an ancient script of the Philippines used before the Spanish colonial period, is now on its way to becoming the official national writing system of the Philippines with the approval of the ...

Visit www.pinaymangatkatay.blogspot.com "...the most interesting of these is the ancient script baybayin often referred to as alibata, a term coined inexplicably to mimic the first two letters of the ...