Family Design

Respect and faithfulness are the two distinguish characteristics of Filipino when it comes to their family. Unlike other Asian countries, there are no booming orphanage in the Philippines for... Check out the new Baybayin translator on http://baybayin.com ... 

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Ilokano Ako

Ilocano people are the third largest ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines. They are now dominant ethnic group in the Northern Philippines. They are known for being hardworking and generally... Check out the new Baybayin translator on http://baybayin.com ... 

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Made in the Philippines Part 3

This is another part of Gerald Genus back tattoo. You can see his whole back tattoo at the latter posts. In here is his surname “Genus” in Baybayin font. You can learn more of Baybayin... Check out the new Baybayin translator on http://baybayin.com ... 

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Maiden Name

Guess what is the meaning of this tattoo? It is basically made of bamboo designs with 2 letters in the middle. The 2 letters in Baybayin represents the maiden name of Jayson Withmore’s (the... Check out the new Baybayin translator on http://baybayin.com ... 

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I Love My Tattoo

This is the recent tattoo job that Christan Cabuay did and designed for Reggie of California. Baybayin script was used and Reggie really loved this one. Well in fact, he left a message for Christian... Check out the new Baybayin translator on http://baybayin.com ... 

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Sports Spotlight: Brandon “The Truth” Vera

This Saturday, November 14th, Brandon "The Truth" Vera will be fighting the most important fight of his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) career when he steps into the octagon with UFC legend Randy “The Natural” Couture. This fight, which will be in the light heavyweight (205... 

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Happy 63rd Philippine Independence Day – A Baybayin Typepad gift for every Filipino

For my 63rd Philippine Independence Day post or now known as the Filipino-American Friendship Day – July 4, 1946, I’m releasing my adjusted version of Banyuhay’s Baybayin Typepad hereby called as Baybayin Typepad No.01.

Yes, as the name suggests this is the first. This great tool was developed by Banyuhay (a blog site written completely in Baybayin / ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔). This is the first typepad for Baybayin I found and it won’t be the last.

Nordenx is also creating his own Baybayin Typepad. I am also writing my own, two jQuery-based Baybayin Typepad, the first jQuery version is already online (if you can find where I am hosting it, congrats) but it is not ready yet.

Simple instructions are inside, no need to download any fonts as long as you are using Firefox 3.5; Safari 4; and the latest Chrome nightly. Enjoy ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔ and I hope this will encourage you to love and revive this beautiful writing system that we can call our own.

Check it out by clicking here.

Baybayin/Alibata – the Lost Writing Script of the Philippines

For my “111st Philippine Independence from Spain and Colonialism” post, I decided to unearthed the forgotten Filipino writing script our forefathers called as Baybayin.

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The Modern Filipino Alphabet

Today, we are using The Modern Filipino Alphabet or Ang Bagong Alpabetong Filipino. We have 28 characters in total, these are: Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ññ, N͠g n͠g, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz.

The 16th letter ‘Ng’ is pronunced as endzi (/ŋ/) in itself or as in ping-pong or wing when already used in a word. Also if you noticed, I wrote the letter endzi with a tilde above it. This was the original way of writing endzi.

Continue reading here and know your Pre-Hispanic History!!

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