Friday, February 18, 2011

The Difference of Alibata & Baybayin

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":


More about the difference of alibata and baybayin on
Alibata vs. Baybayin

12 comments:

  1. salamat de salamat po...

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  2. Thank you for this! The logo of my brand has the Baybayin translation and this info helped me a lot.

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  3. Thanks. I like to correct something about alibata. It is the first 3 letters of arabic alphabet, alif (a) ba (b) ta (t).

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    1. Yes it is indeed 3 letters of the Arabic 'alibata' as specified in the chart but the definition of UP Diksiyunaryo Filipino merges the (ba) and (ta).

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  4. much to thank...salamat kaayo

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  5. ᜄᜒᜉᜄ᜔ what is the meaning of this? Di kopo mabasa Thanks

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    1. Ge/Gi Pa G = Gepag o Gipag, base sa mga titik.

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  6. Mali namn ung alif and bata, Ang correct ay alif, ba, and ta...

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    1. pinagsama nga lang po ung ba at ta. pero parehong diwa naman po ang nais ipabatid.

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