Baybayin Visual Aid by Nordenx

January 19th, 2010 Posted by: Anonymous 5 Comments

Ever since I engaged myself in learning our history, particularly about Baybayin i thought it was that hard to read a word or even a sentence written in Baybayin. When I came across Nordenx’ visual aid in his Devianart website, it is as easy as looking at Latin alphabets.

ᜋᜇᜎᜒ ᜎᜅ᜔ ᜈᜋᜈ᜔ ᜈ ᜋᜆᜓᜆᜓᜈᜈ᜔ ᜀᜅ᜔ ᜉᜄ᜔-ᜊᜐ ᜀᜆ᜔ ᜉᜄ᜔-ᜐᜓᜎᜆ᜔ ᜅ᜔ ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔᜶ ᜎᜎᜓ ᜈ ᜃᜓᜅ᜔ ᜁᜆᜓ ᜀᜌ᜔ ᜁᜌᜓᜅ᜔ ᜁᜐᜐᜉᜓᜐᜓ᜶

“A visual aid for memorizing Baybayin script (fonts) through association. By manipulating the ancient script (re-orientation and adding imaginary lines), you can compare them to equivalent Roman alphabets. Please note that the uncanny similarities between Baybayin characters and the Roman alphabet is purely coincidental. The Philippine scripts were derived from Kavi script or Old Javanese, perhaps indirectly through the Buginese. It has also been suggested that the writing system was directly derived from Brahmi scripts used on the Eastern coast of India, such as Vengi, Chalukya, or Assam, originally transmitted in the 8th century AD.

I hope that this guide would help others improve their recognition of Baybayin characters and help them to ba able to read, write, and use Baybayin Scripts in their art.” – NORDENX

Katherine

January 21, 2010 @ 2:51 pm

Hello! My name is Kat I was just reading your post and I would like to know how you wrote the Baybayin script directly on your blog. I’ve downloaded the font and I could use it on my computer and all–but the moment I copy and paste it on my blog, it turns back into the roman alphabet. I would really appreciate your help on this one. Thanks!

taga-bundok

January 23, 2010 @ 5:57 pm

Hi Katherine!

I hope I am not late on replying to you. Anyway, those fonts are patterned to a western keyboard (as what i have understood from the font makers) so basically when you copy and paste it to your website (whether you are using wordpad, notepad or ms word) it will turn back to the roman alphabet.

However, there are options where you can still use the baybayin script in your website. The easiest way is to use the Baybayin Typepad (created by marfealsantiago). It is where I type my articles and copy paste it here in my site.

This is the link for the Baybayin Typepad in my site: Pisarang Baybayin

For a bit complicated option you can check on JC Cuneta’s blog:
How-To Implement Cross-Browser @font-face Support

By the way, may i know your website… I would love to drop a comment. Have a great day ahead Kat!

animevenus93

August 7, 2010 @ 2:01 am

Hey kuya, sinubukan ko pong puntahan yung “How-To Implement Cross-Browser @font-face Support” na link na binigay niyo sa taas. Pero hindi na po siya gumagana.

Paano ko po ito makikita?

Dahn Jacob

August 7, 2010 @ 8:43 am