Before using the current alphabet that has 28 letters, the Philippines had 4 sets of letters since the pre-colonial times MANILA, Philippines – Like many nations colonized by westerners ...

CEBU, Philippines - Filipinos have since been taught that their ancient alphabet was “Alibata.” This may no longer be the case. Literary historian Virgilio “Rio Alma” Almario said that ...

they instructed Filipinos to use the Latin alphabet, and Baybayin, the written component of Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, fell out of use. But over the past two decades ...