4realster:Yahooooo. At the urgent insistence of linguists and Filipino academics in general, the Phi
4realster:Yahooooo. At the urgent insistence of linguists and Filipino academics in general, the Philippine government may well mainstream Baybayin into the school system curricula. Baybayin is the language system that dominated the Philippine isles prior to the 400-year colonial instrusion of the overzealous Catholic-Spaniards. God used colonialism in His own way - to send the message of His son unto the ends of the earth, but let the ground fall beneath me before I forget how much was taken away from us “indigenous peoples.” Language is one of the things that makes people unique and it might be time to refine the uniqueness of the Filipino. Like the people of Israel, let’s bring back to life what the legacy of colonialism deemed worthy of death!The Baybayin as we know it today is an ancient Filipino system of writing, a set of 17 characters or letters that had spread throughout the Philippine archipelago in the sixteenth century. The graphic contours of the Baybayin are distinguished by smoothly flowing curvilinear strokes that convey both suppleness and strength.http://indiohistorian.tumblr.com/post/13097309564/baybayin-the-lost-filipino-script-part-1-the -- source link