MANY Filipinos are probably unaware that their forebears used their own script – the Baybayin – to write, before the arrival in the Philippines of Spanish colonizers, and even the Islamic missionaries.
The Baybayin, the ancient script of the Tagalogs, is a mixture of an alphabet and a syllabary. It is not a language, but a manner of writing.
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