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    The document discusses the history of writing systems used in the Philippines. It explains that the native baybayin script was influenced by Indian scripts, not the Arabic alibata as some had defined. Over 400 years of Spanish colonization introduced the Latin alphabet. Regional languages also impacted Filipino writing over time. Efforts to conform baybayin to the Arabic alfabetos led to innovations that may have contributed to its eventual replacement by the Latin alphabet.

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    The document discusses the history of writing systems used in the Philippines. It explains that the native baybayin script was influenced by Indian scripts, not the Arabic alibata as some had defined. Over 400 years of Spanish colonization introduced the Latin alphabet. Regional languages also impacted Filipino writing over time. Efforts to conform baybayin to the Arabic alfabetos led to innovations that may have contributed to its eventual replacement by the Latin alphabet.

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    First Alphabet of the Philippines

    From these definitions, it is clear that alibata is different from baybayin , where


    alibata is actually the Arabic alphabet under the abjad family so it's 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.

    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.

    Although the major languages of the Philippines are now written using the Roman alphabet, the
    languages were first represented using a script related to and directly or indirectly derived from
    the scripts of India. Alibata. ...

    The confusion over the use of marks may have contributed to the demise of Baybayin
    over time. The desire of Francisco Lopez (1620) for Baybayin to conform to alfabetos
    paved the way for the invention of a cross sign.

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