We had several - like the Badlit of the Cebuanos, the Surat Mangyan," Taipan shares, adding, "The Baybayin is not an alphabet. It's an alphasyllabary, meaning the letters are consonants ...

By the time I started teaching, I was told the correct term was “baybayin.” Whoever coined alibata used the first three letters in Arabic: alif, baa, and taa. While there have been attempts ...