With the growing popularity of the accepted term 'baybayin' to our pre-Hispanic script, still the majority of our fellowmen are educated to the misnomer 'alibata'. According to UP Diksiyunaryo Filipino, the definition of alibata and baybayin is stated below:
From these definitions, it is clear that alibata is different from baybayin , where alibata is actually the Arabic alphabet under the
abjad family so it's not applicable to refer to our own script where our writing system is believed to be under the
Brahmic family of scripts which shares with
Devanagari.
Versoza's reasoning on coining Alibata base on arrangement of Arabic letters is far different on the original order of Baybayin
Below is the comparison of alibata and baybayin script for the phrase "Thank You":
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Alibata vs. Baybayin
