This was particularly hard for Spanish friars, who were working on translating books into Tagalog. In the original form, stand-alone consonants (consonants without the vowel sound) could not be formed. The kudlít does not apply to stand-alone vowels, as they have their own letters. To produce another vowel sound, a special mark (known as a kudlít) was placed either on the top of the letter (for 'E' and 'I' sounds) or on the bottom (for 'O' and 'U' sounds). By default, Baybayin letters are consonants ending with the vowel 'A'. Related scripts include the Kulitan, Hanunóo, Buhid, and Tagbanwa scripts and the script was used in the past to write the Ilocano and Pangasinan languages.Įach letter has a vowel sound. The alphabet contained seventeen letters where three letters (the vowels a,e/i,o/u) were considered double-use.
Ang Baybayín (Baybayin) īaybayin, was the old Tagalog alphabet that is a direct descendant of Kavi, the script used to write Old Javanese. While this article will cover mostly the Latin alphabet and its history, a brief history on Baybayin will also be covered. However, in the past, it was written using Baybayin. Tagalog today is written in the Latin alphabet.
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