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About my research, works and experiences with the extinct Filipino writing system known as the Baybayin script.
About Me
- Frederick Victor Paredes Añana
- I am a Filipino Fine Arts Graduate of Far Eastern University 2005. Major in Advertising Arts. My father's name is Teodoro Ruiz Añana - deputy coordinator/consultant of Urban Poor Associates. My mother's name is Constancia Jamiro Paredes/Añana, a SPED (Special Education)Teacher, part-time tutor and a member of ASP (Autism Society Philippines).
I. My Modified Baybayins
II. My Baybayin Research & Links
Below are links to my publications about Baybayin:
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A.) Evolution of the Baybayin Script
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B.) Fred’s Baybayin ResearchIII. My Interests in Baybayin
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| A.) High School Years | |
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| | I began my interest in Baybayin script when I was a 13 year old 1st year High School student of St. Francis Divine Institute near Zabarte Novaliches (s.y. 1994-95). The Baybayin script was featured in our history book as a system of writing with 3 vowels and 14 consonants. Vowel markers (or diacritics) were used to represent vowel sounds (for details, see Baybayin Symbols Chart). Our textbook mentioned that the crossed-shaped marker was used to mute the inherent a sound of a consonant. It showed a Baybayin transliteration chart but did not specify what Baybayin version it was. So at that time, I mistakenly thought that the crossed-shaped marker was part of the original Baybayin script. I was wrong. It was during my college years at FEU (Far Eastern University) when I realized that it was a Spanish Modified version of Baybayin and it was the Baybayin Lopez style. |
Baybayn Symbols Chart (Baybayin Lopez) - Spanish Modified Version
B.) College Years
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During my College years, I learned that the Baybayin script (or Alibata) had two versions: the Traditional and the Spanish Modified version.
(For detals, see http://www.eaglescorner.com/baybayin/faqt.html#Q3)
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My curiosity led me to research more about Baybayin at the FEU main library, Filipiñana section.
There, I stumbled upon a book called “Another Look at Tagalog” by Norlito Ison Cervo.
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In page iv of the book was the Paleographic Chart of the Philippine Islands by Pedro Paterno. It was a comparative syllabaries chart of various Baybayin styles of early Filipinos. It also compared the Baybayins with the alphabets of other nationalities.
Paleographic Chart of the Philippine Islands
| In page 15 of the book, it showed that the basic characters were possibly patterned on facial movements: |
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| In 2004, I discovered various websites about Baybayin, some of them have comparative syllabaries charts similar to Pedro Paterno’s. Click the links below to check them out: | |
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| | 1.) Alibata – origin theories, etc. |
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| | 2.) Alibata - |
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| | 3.) Ating Alibata – Our Filipino Script …and how Baybayin became Alibata |
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| | 4.) Ancient Philippine Scripts |
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| | 5.) Baybayin - Symbols Chart |
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| | 6.) Baybayin Styles & Their Sources (a comparative syllabaries chart) |
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| | 7.) Baybayin - The Ancient Script of the |
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| | 8.) Ilocano Baybayin |
| | http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-ilocano-baybayin.html |
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| | 9.) Paleographic Chart of the Philippine |
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| | 10.) Tagalog Baybayin |
| | http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-tagalog-baybayin.html |
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| By surfing the internet, I found out that the system of using markers to represent vowels was called the Abugida writing system. Such system was also very common in ancient | |
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| I also discovered that Baybayin is still being used by some ethnic minorities of the | |
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| Below are sites where you can download Baybayin fonts for free: | |
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| | 1.) Download Baybayin Fonts Free |
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| | 2.) Computer Fonts - Living Scripts: Buhid, Hanunuo, Tagbanwa |
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C.) After College
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I designed three modified versions of the Baybayin script which were all posted on Omniglot.com. They‘re called Maharlikang Tagalog, Alfa-Larawan & Alfa-Kinetix.
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I later became a member of various Baybayin discussion groups such as:
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1.) Alibata
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Alibata/
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2.) Alibata_baybayin
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alibata_baybayin/
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3.) Alibata_culture
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alibata_culture/
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4.) Baybayin.com – social network
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5.) Baybayin Enthusiasts
http://baybayin-enthusiasts.deviantart.com/
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6.) NalibatAdvocates
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NalibatAdvocates/
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Friday, July 10, 2009
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Hi. I am Norlito Ison Cervo's (author of Another Look at Tagalog) daughter. Today, December 6 is the 13th anniversary of his death. Surfing the net, I found this site. It made me smile knowing his works somehow helped you and perhaps inspired you nore to study about the language. If he has been still with us today, I am very sure the two of you will have a lot of things to talk about-it makes him very happy to see young people interested in his favorite topic. Again, thank you very much.
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