What can I say about Alibata?
January 8, 2008Honestly I was not able to encounter the term alibata during my school days in elementary, high school or even in college. Maybe because I'm busy solving chess problems during my school years or I'm only absent during that time 
. Well, but I discovered lately that alibata is the ancient writing of Filipinos and I should know about alibata because I'm a true Filipino by heart and by blood. So according to my research, alibata was considered to be an extinct writing system of our country but recently, an effort was seen to revived alibata by some individuals whose goal are to inspire nationalists and / or ethnic pride. By the way alibata is also known as "baybayin", which is a local dialect (specifically tagalog dialect) that means "to spell".
Actually I've read an article from the Inquirer.net about the attempt of some of the Filipino professor to revive alibata. These professor from FEU actually teaches alibata to his students somewhere in Quiapo, Manila. I'm really inspired about the article and the effort made by our fellow Filipino just to revive this alibata heritage. The article also states a recommendation that alibata should be included in school curriculums. (Read this alibata article at http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view_article.php?article_id=65575).
Today, many Filipinos are using alibata as tattoo, an art or just a display on walls or flags or design for their websites but I hope that they understand that what they are carrying is the alibata, is our pride and our own.
The following is an alibata text, if translated it means FILIPINO.
while these means ALIBATA.
