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A Philippine
Leaf by Hector Santos. The first web site about the baybayin on
the Internet. It also covers the Living scripts of Mindoro and Palawan,
the Laguna Copperplate Inscription of 900 C.E. and many other areas
of ancient Philippine history.
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Ating Baybayin -
Our Filipino Script by Victor Quimson. A really clever site with
Victor's own Baybayin Online Translator. You just type in a word and
the programme will transcribe and display the word in either the original
baybayin or the modified Spanish baybayin. Incidentally, my Tagalog
Stylized font is used throughout Victor's site.
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Doctrina Christiana,
1593. The Project Gutenburg online edition of the first book ever
printed in the Philippines. It contains the oldest known example of
baybayin writing in existence.
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Baybayin:
the Alibata Experience by Joselito Sering from an article that
appeared in Maganda magazine.
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Reflections
of Asia sells some books about the baybayin. If you are really
interested in the baybayin, the best deal is the facsimile of the
entire Doctrina Christiana of 1593. This is the earliest surviving
example of baybayin writing. You will learn a lot and the book is
very reasonably priced.
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Urduja.com by Mary Ann Ubaldo,
sells beautiful custom made Baybayin jewellery on-line. Read about
her in a Philippine
Daily Inquirer article and check out her Flash presentation called
Baybayin and the
Atom
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Malaya
Designs is Ray Haguisan's company that also makes all kinds of
wearable baybayin art.
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Alibata
by Victor Ganata. The information in these pages is based on a paper
written on May 8, 1998 by Victor Ganata for Professor Gary Holland
at the University of California at Berkeley. It was subsequently revised
and rewritten as HTML on April 11, 1999. There are also some free
download-able baybayin fonts and an on-line "transliterator".
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Alan Wood’s
Unicode Resources. Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts,
Web Browsers and Other Applications.
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Omniglot
is fascinating site by Simon Ager about scripts from all over the
world.
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Travel Phrases by David
Mc Creedy is a site devoted to four basic phrases that every traveller
should know. David is collecting these phrases in every possible language
and written script. Unicode fonts are also available at this site.
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Ancient Philippine
Scripts by Dr. Carl Rubino, a linguist and author of Tagalog and
Ilokano dictionaries. Here the baybayin is viewed from an Ilokano's
point of view.
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Alibata at Pandesal by
Terrio Echavez. A Bisayan version of the baybayin is available for
download as a TrueType font.
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Alfabetos de Ayer y
de Hoy at PROEL is a Spanish web page with many examples of the
baybayin.
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acculturation
is a multimedia project by Lynn Violanta at the Arizona State University
that involves computer prototyping and one of my fonts.
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Baybayin
Tattoos Erick Gonzales talks about getting his baybayin tattoo
in an interview for the programme Studio 360 on WNYC.
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Asian
Ink, The Filipino Art of Tattoo Read more about tattoos in the
Philippines in the article at Destroy All Monsters.com
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Banana
Cafe Also about tattoos.
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The
Travelling Tattoo Artist is an article by Elz Cuya about Aleks
Figueroa's baybayin tattoo creations.
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Body Art
is a page that shows examples of baybayin tattoos.
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Teaching
ABCs the alibata way is an article by Tina G. Santos that was
published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer in which she interviewed
Raymond M. Cosare of Far Eastern University. In the article Cosare
provided many insights about baybayin writing – most of them
were copied directly from my web article, Baybayin,
The Ancient Script of the Philippines. See this alternate link
if the first link is dead: Teaching
alibata
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Missing
attributions a disservice to scholarship is my letter to the editor
of the Philippine Daily Inquirer concerning the plagiarism in the
PDI article listed above.