Listen closely. Can you hear them? Faint, yet persistent, like rustling leaves in a forgotten forest – these are Baybayin’s whispers. They carry echoes of a time before colonization, a time when Filipinos documented their lives, literature, and traditions using a unique and elegant pre-colonial Filipino script. For centuries, this intricate system of writing lay…
Unearthing a Written Legacy Imagine a time before Spanish galleons reached the shores of the Philippines, a time when vibrant communities thrived with their own unique cultures, traditions, and even their own systems of writing. Buried beneath layers of colonial history lies Baybayin, an ancient Filipino script that offers a profound connection to the nation’s…