Going To The Classic: Kur-itan Regular Font

Kur-itan Regular Font

Kur-itan Regular Font based on Lopez typeface for the Ilocan script now with special character ‘Ra’ adopted from Bicol Mintz to supplement the distinct Ilocan language which uses R entirely in its words. Together with non-circular C-shape ‘kur-it’ (kudlit), and ‘X’ virama for vowel cancellation.

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Baybayin Mayat Font

Baybayin Mayat Font

Baybayin Mayat Font, 'mayat' means 'nice' in Ilocan language. With special 'Ra' character based on Bicol Mintz.

©2011 by rapcom creations

Baybayin Evolutionary Modifications

The growing number of practitioners and enthusiasts of baybayin which now expanded its uses and transcend the boundaries of its tradition to blend with the outside world leads to the proposed modification and expansion of baybayin characters. Some had created their own new baybayin glyphs to match the Latin letters C, F, J, Q, X, V, Z and even the Ñ. The ‘Ra’ character has variations, the Bicol Mintz and the recent one developed by Norman Delos Santos for his fonts. As of this time, there are no settled standard new baybayin characters yet. On the other hand, this prompted me to do my own little experiment. Using the Baybayin Lopez truetype font (by Paul Morrow), I merged the two baybayin characters and created a new one based on the fuse of two glyphs. The ‘Ja’ character was already proposed by Kendrick Salting a year ago which seems that it agreed well with the two glyphs.

I do not recommend this as a proposal but just to show how the two characters look like when combined and evolved to a new one. My experiment did not include the letter C, V and Z since they can be transliterate either ‘Ka’/’Sa’, ‘Ba’ and ‘Sa’ depending in pronunciation. Only the letter J, F, X and Q are my focal point.

New Baybayin Fonts Now Available

A New Series of Baybayin Fonts Now Available

 

Baybayin Marikit Font 

Baybayin Marikit font with special character 'Ra' adapted from Bikol Mintz model. Also with bigger kudlits/virama for reader friendly.

Baybayin Pintas Font

Baybayin Pintas Font, 'pintas' (Ilocano word for 'beautiful') with special character for 'Ra' adapted from Bikol Mintz baybayin variant.

by rapcom creations ©2011
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An Old Municipal Landmark

A municipal landmark bearing the baybayin "ᜃᜊ" (kaba), the logo of Kabataang Barangay (Marcos youth movement headed by daughter Imee Marcos -- who represented KB in Marcos' cabinet) the ancestor of todays SK -- Sangguniang Kabataan (Youth Council) -- also known as 'Sanggulangang Kabataan' (Youth Con Games) (courtesy of Renante Tomas)

Kabataang Barangay logo

Location: Villasis-Urdaneta City border

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

Baybayin in New Philippine Bill

 

This how baybayin is viewed in different directions on the new Philippine bill as one of the security features:

Full text of the word "PILIPINO" (ᜉᜒᜎᜒᜉᜒᜈᜓ) when viewed against the light:

(obverse)

Viewed in normal condition

(obverse)

 Full text when viewed against the light

(reverse)

 Viewed in normal condition

(reverse)

The font used in the banknote is Tagalog Stylized font by Paul Morrow which can be downloaded for free