CEBU, Philippines - Filipinos have since been taught that their ancient alphabet was “Alibata.” This may no longer be the case. Literary historian Virgilio “Rio Alma” Almario said that unlike what has ...

Classroom history taught me that pre-Spanish syllabary was called “alibata.” By the time I started teaching, I was told the correct term was “baybayin.” Whoever coined alibata used the first three ...

A campaign to revive Baybayin or the alibata script, the writing system of pre-Hispanic Philippines that includes surat Mangyan, has been launched in the United States by cultural activist Norman de ...

The preservation of culture exists in many ways. The preservation of culture exists in many ways. The preservation of culture exists in many ways. Baybayin is the written language of the Philippines.

SAN FRANCISCO, California — Filipino script artist Kristian Kabuay represented the Philippines and the diaspora in the International Workshop on Endangered Scripts of South East Asia on Feb. 28 at the ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Calligraphy artist Kristian Kabuay has launched his third publication, a coloring book for young Filipino Americans, called Kulay (Color), on the ancient Filipino script called ...

ABOUT 12 years ago, there was information that was so wrong but had become such common knowledge that you wanted it thrown off the face of the earth. One of these was that the name for the ancient ...