Alibata or Baybayin

What is Alibata really all about? It is the new keyword being used for the second checkpoint of the Bayanihan SEO competition. The real meaning of Alibata is:


Baybayin or Alibata (known in Unicode as the Tagalog script) is a pre-Hispanic Philippine writing system that originated from the Javanese script Old Kawi. The writing system is a member of the Brahmic family (and an offshoot of the Vatteluttu alphabet) and is believed to be in use as early as the 14th century. It continued to be in use during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines up until the late 19th Century. The term baybayin literally means spelling. Closely related scripts are Hanunóo, Buhid, and Tagbanwa.

I adopted the word Alibata as the main title of this blog because I am a Filipino and its symbolizes the old Filipino writing. We are now in the modern world so for me it now means as blogging or writing with the use of computer by a Filipino.