This alphabet was called the Abecedario, the original alphabet of the Catholicized Filipinos, which variously had either 28, 29, 31, or 32 letters. Until the first half of the 20th century, most Philippine languages were widely written in a variety of ways based on Spanish orthography.

Is it alibata or baybayin?

From these definitions, it is clear that alibata is different from baybayin , where alibata is actually the Arabic alphabet under the abjad family so its not applicable to refer to our own script where our writing system is believed to be under the Brahmic family of scripts which shares with Devanagari.

What is the ancient Filipino alphabet called?

The modern Filipino alphabet (Filipino: makabagong alpabetong Filipino), otherwise known as the Filipino alphabet (Filipino: alpabetong Filipino), is the alphabet of the Filipino language, the official national language and one of the two official languages of the Philippines.

Is baybayin the first Filipino alphabet?

Before today, the number of letters in the Filipino alphabet varied, given that we first had the pre-Hispanic baybayin, then 400 years of using the Latin alphabet, and with many regional languages influencing the way Filipinos write. On National Language Month, Rappler traces the development of the Filipino alphabet.