Tutorials

Baybayin is an abugida writing system consisting of 14 consonants and 3 vowels. Each of the 14 consonants ends with the vowel “A”.  For example, the letter B would be BA. The Thai, Balinese, and Sanskrit scripts also have similar characteristics.

The original “alphabet” consists of the following characters:

Vowels
A | E | I | O | U

Consonants
Ba | Ka | Da | Ga | Ha | La | Ma | Na | Nga | Pa | Sa | Ta | Wa | Ya


Kudlit
The kudlit is a small mark above or below a consonant character to change the pronouncing properties.
The KA character alone looks like this:
ka
With the kudlit above it would be either KE or KI.
ke-ki

 

A kudlit below the character would be either KO or KU.
ko-ku

baybayin-chart

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  4. I need help trying to put “family is my everything” in baybayin. Can you help me out it would be much appreciated

  5. Well I was actually looking to have a tattoo done , and then I learned about baybayin .
    Id really like to learn this language , where can I start ?
    also id like a translation for a tattoo of “gift of God” or “kaloob ng dios” into baybayin .
    pls reply to mastakayos12@aol.com
    thank you

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