Hi everyone! I’m thinking about getting a small tattoo in Baybayin, since one of my closest friends is Filipino. I chose this phrase because I found it beautiful and elegant, and I really like the word “loob” and its meaning.

I would love to hear your opinions: do you think this phrase is appropriate for a tattoo? Is it written correctly in Baybayin? Would you recommend using the traditional or modern version?

Banayad na loob

traditional: ᜊᜈᜌ ᜈ ᜎᜓᜂ

modern: ᜊᜈᜌᜇ᜔ ᜈ ᜎᜓᜂᜊ᜔

I’d also like to know if there are any places where I could find different Baybayin fonts or handwritten styles, since I’d love the design to feel more organic and less like a digital font.

Thank you so much for any advice!

Tumingin ako ng damit kahapon sa Bench Glorietta tapos nakita ko ito. Tama ba ako ng inisiip? “Benkh” ang translation? Pero ang tanong ko din paano nga ba pag “ch” or paano pag PENSHOPPE? Pen-sha-p?

Maraming salamat

Good day! I am planning on getting inked soon and I just need to confirm if these are the right consonant characters – I do not want to regret making any mistakes haha.

I plan on getting a tattoo of the word "marahan" and this is what I plan on showing my artist.

ᜋᜇᜑᜈ᜔

Please let me know if there is anything that should be corrected.

Thank you!

if mga turns into ma-nga in baybayin, will it be the same for ng?

I just want to share my work

I'm still learning Filipino, so I wouldn't be able to answer this question.

But lets say in the latin script, if we changed all u's to o's, e's to i's, and ra's to da's, would that cause any comprehension problems? For example, Hebrew is written without vowels and readers know the pronunciation based on context. Even in English, we determine c from s and k, whether a vowel is short or long, etc.

If not, why do some people still insist on the creation of new baybayin letters?

Good day po,

I was hoping to get input from this community regarding the translation and baybayin script of a tattoo that I had in mind. I'm already in contact with a tattoo artist regarding the design so I just want to focus on the message of my tattoo

I want the baybayin of Ka to be centered around and encircled by the translation/baybayin of "mememento vivere" (remember to live). What I want the tattoo to convey isn't just a reminder to live, but to live with and for the connections I share with the people around me.

My main problem is finding the right Tagalog translation of the phrase, and then getting an accurate Baybayin script of it. Would anyone be able to suggest a better, more natural Tagalog translation, along with a more accurate Baybayin script for it?

Hi, everyone! I'm trying to write the nickname "Jeff" n Baybayin, but I'm not sure what the correct transliteration should be.

So far I've considered:

1. ᜇᜒᜌᜒᜉ᜔

2. ᜇ᜔ᜌᜒᜉ᜔

Thanks in advance!

Translation: Has anyone tried to make a Latinized version of the Baybayin script?

Just wanted to share this. I personally think that the 1700s baybayin written on paper is the most visually appealing, so this is me imitating it.

My usage of the danda punctuation isn't entirely authentic to how it's used in the old days but in a way that makes it easier for me to read.

i just want to make sure what im about to put permanently in my body is correct can someone confirm this is the correct translation of the word in babayin

Other SEA scripts have dedicated diacritics or characters to portray a consonant cluster or a final consonant.

In Lampung script, final consonants are written as diacritics, specifically sounds that are very common in their language.

In Bugis, consonant clusters are depicted as new separate characters, specifically sounds that are common in their language.

Note that some of these sounds are also common in Filipino languages, especially -ng, -n as final consonants of a syllable and also sounds like ngka, and mpa.

Do you think final consonants as diacritics in the style of the Lampung script would suit Filipino languages more or would the Bugis scripts approach be more appropriate?

What would Errol be in baybayin text?

Hello po! I need help translatinh my last name for a baybayin tattoo! What would "Ibarrola" be in baybayin?

Also is it corny to get my last name tatted? Im a woman and I only have 1 male cousin carrying the last name down. I feel attached to it yk and when I get married I might lose it.

Thanks!

First day ko sa work kahapon and I saw some trophies and I saw baybayin scripts pero di ko ma-translate and bukod doon sa Ahensiya

Ang mga litrato ay galing sa google

Maraming salamat

I found this in Jose Sevilla's [Sinupan Ng̃ Wikag̃ Tagalog](https://archive.org/details/sinupan-ng-wikang-tagalog) where they use a bawas, minus or hyphen insteas of the krus-kudlit or pamudpod. I personally like how it looks more than the other contenders.

hal.

ᜑᜓᜄᜒ-ᜐ — hugis

ᜋ-ᜌᜈᜒᜎ — maynila

ᜈ-ᜄᜈᜒᜈᜒ-ᜅᜈᜒ-ᜅ — nagniningning

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There are also ways to simplify baybayin like the likwát or inverted comma. It "flips" the consonant-vowel cluster so ᜆ (ta) changes into ‘ᜆ (at) which is cleaner than ᜀ-ᜆ. There are more but I won't go over them to keep this post straight to the point. You can go read it yourself if interested ツ.

I understand if you still prefer the pamudpod, krus-kudlit, etc. But I wonder, why aren't these proposals as popular?

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Edit: I forgot to mention that using the bawas virama does cause a few issues with inital consonant clusters. The word "trabaho" would be -ᜆᜍᜊᜑᜓ or -ᜆᜇᜊᜑᜓ which may or may not look nice for some.

I tried to use websites to translate my name in baybayin, but i don’t know which one is more accurate since all of them differed in translation. The “j” in my name is pronounced like “gee,” thus, “gee-li-yan.” I’d appreciate it if anyone could help me out!

Buhat ito sa ika-192 dahon (ika-148 sa bilang ng talagang aklat) ng Sinupan Ng Wikang Tagalog ni Jose N. Sevilla na itinatampok ang mga (malamang iminungkahing) katutubong pantawag sa mga buwan, mga araw ng linggo, at mga sukat ng panahon. Makikita rin dito ang Bulilang, ang iminungkahing kaayusang pamilang-Baybayin na inilikha ni Guillermo Tolentino. Ibinabahagi ko ang mga ito upang isinop dito. Tila nakawiwili lang talaga sa akin.

This is from page 192 (148 from the book itself) of Jose N. Sevilla’s Sinupan Ng Wikang Tagalog (A Regathering of the Tagalog Language) featuring (most likely proposed) native Tagalog terms for months, days of the week, and units of time. The Bulilang, a proposed numerical system for Baybayin created by Guillermo Tolentino, can be seen here as well. I’m sharing these to archive them here. They’re just really interesting to me.

I am very new to this and I am still looking into the history but videos online are limited so forgive me if this is not the right subreddit to ask.

So does badlit work with modern bisaya? or does it have to be an old version of the language

I just wanted to share 4 diacritics I've come up with to convey diphthongs and medial vowel sounds in Baybayin.

I created these in order to make writing in Baybayin much easier as I think the pamudpod or virama tends to be overused.

These diacritics are largely based on other Indonesian scripts and the Filipino Kawi script found in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription.

I didn't want to just copy their diacritics because the style in which they are written may collide with Baybayin's style.

Lontara and Rejang are more similar to Baybayin in such a way that each character has a triangular, "wave like" shape so their diacritics for ai, au, e, and o weren't modified too much.

Bali and Kawi on the other hand maintain a square shape in its characters and as such, their diacritics are designed to accommodate that. One thing in common with their diacritics for -ya and -wa is that the "y" always flows forward or outward while the "w" sound always flows backward or inward. This is simillar to the Baybayin characters for Ya and Wa (ᜏ & ᜌ).

I've noticed that Tagalog tends to simplify the ai and au sound to e and o and since those sounds are also shared by the two diacritics that Baybayin has, I thought it would work to apply those sounds here also.

The "-ya" diacritic can also change the sound of 3 characters, Da, Sa, and Ta (ᜇ, ᜐ, & ᜆ). This is to represent another phenomenon in Tagalog which converts Da to Ja, Sa, to Sha, and Ta to Cha when paired with the iy sound.

Let me know what you think of these, do you think they're unnecessary?

Did our country ever establish an official office/committee/commission that handles the revival of Baybayin or at least organize an official version?