Until the first half of the 20th century, most Philippine languages were widely written in a variety of ways based on Spanish orthography. This alphabet was called the Abecedario, the original alphabet of the Catholicized Filipinos, which variously had either 28, 29, 31, or 32 letters. When most of the Philippine languages were first written in the Latin script, they used the Spanish alphabet. When the Spaniards arrived in 1521 and began to colonize the islands of the Philippines in 1565, they introduced the Latin script to the Catholicized Filipinos. The scripts that are still in use today by the indigenous Mangyan groups of the Philippines are the Buhid and the Hanunó'o script. A controversial and debatable script of the Philippines is the Eskayan script.īaybayin script began to decline in the 17th century and became obsolete in the 18th century. Examples of this ancient Philippine writing system which descended from the Brāhmī script are the Kawi, Baybayin, Buhid, Hanunó'o, Tagbanwa, Butuan, Kapampangan and other Brahmic family of scripts known to antiquity. During the Pre-Hispanic Era, most of the languages of the Philippines were written in abugida, an ancient segmental writing system.
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