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Phew! I’ve been busy for the past two weeks, “End-of-Summer-Rush”, if ever such term exists. The team went to Camotes to a teambuilding last May 10 – 11. One word summarizes Camotes, “overly-beautiful-stunning-island”. Just last weekend, May 17 was the Company Summer Outing in Tambuli Beach Resort in Mactan and it was all booze!

Now, since I’m all done with the “End-of-Summer-Rush”, I have a new project in mind, and that is, to learn how to write or use the ALIBATA. For the sake of everybody,

Alibata is an ancient writing system that was used in what is now the Philippines. Although it was all but exstinguished by Western colonization, variants of it are still used in parts of Mindoro and Palawan, and it is also increasingly used by Filipino youth as a way to express their identity. Alibata, originally known as, Baybayin, is composed of 3 vowels and 14 consonants. The early Filipinos used a sharp pointed iron instrument called sipol as pen. They wrote on banana leaves, tree-barks, and bamboo tubes.

I have been a big fan of the Alibata since grade school, and then came the TV show Pintados (where they used some Alibata words and letters) and some other Ethnic Bands still using the Alibata letters. I’m planning to have the Alibata translation of “iskolares” inked in my back together with the Libra sign.

Having/Knowing how to use the ALIBATA just gives a whole new meaning of being a Filipino for me. Alas, I found a useful link from Paradise Philippines, click here so that you can learn the Alibata too.

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18 Responses to “Project Alibata”

1. jay
   May 27th, 2008 @ 11:14 pm

   naa nakay ka pareha og theme..si vern, kanang mod sa istorya.

   ribbed[dot]us. haha

2. tinay
   May 28th, 2008 @ 11:44 am

   oh i love this post. i hunger for a real tattoo in alibata. like you, i have this love for the culture and history of pinas. learn na oi, might ask you to spill the ink on my skin

   libre tika boy bawang!

3. iskolares
   May 29th, 2008 @ 4:36 am

   @jay .. uu kita ko ato.. taud2 napd.. hehehe.. tigvisit raba ko sa iya site tungod sa photogallery niya.. wahahahhaha

   @tinay..
   hahahaha.. im learning to write.. but for God’s sake.. dili ko motattoo oi.. hehehe..

4. akosikai
   May 30th, 2008 @ 6:58 am

   we’re going sa camotes next week!! =)
   i soo remember my pintados days , heheh..
   nice bya 2 nga tv series sa GMA..
   bata pa kau ko ato, tiguwang naka ato nuh?? hheheh

5. iskolares
   June 3rd, 2008 @ 11:07 pm

   asa na ang pictures sa kamotes kai? wala pa? ehehe

   day care center pako atong pintados nga time.. xD

6. mimay
   June 7th, 2008 @ 11:51 pm

   hey, I’m planning to have an Alibata tattoo. If it’s not much of a bother, can you please translate my name into it? btw, it’s IRMA. thnx

7. iskolares
   June 12th, 2008 @ 12:09 am

   @mimay.. i am not an expert in alibata so im going to try me best. hehehe

   check this link…
   http://i25.tinypic.com/2q2jqer.jpg

   since there was no “R” in alibata (our ancestors did not use the letter) I translated it to “L”

8. mimay
   June 12th, 2008 @ 1:41 am

   woi thnx, gud thing tulo ra, dli kaayo sakit. hihihi.

9. iskolares
   June 12th, 2008 @ 4:05 pm

   hahahaha.. maka adik raba na ang dagom ana akong mga amigo.. ehehe

   ang last letter kay “MA” na .. dili “A”..

10. alibata-master
    October 27th, 2008 @ 4:34 pm

    ,,…chinese = chinese calligraphy..
    ,….japanese = hiragana,..
    ,,,,.western = roman letters

    ,…PINOY/lUVANO = ALIBATA/BAYBAYIN

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12. willie d
    July 19th, 2009 @ 10:19 am

    wow great tattoos!yeah!!!

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    July 28th, 2009 @ 8:16 am

    cool stuff man!

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    Alibata is very very important to the Philippines and its history. Thanks for posting this,.

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