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For my 63rd Philippine Independence Day post or now known as the Filipino-American Friendship Day - July 4, 1946, I’m releasing my adjusted version of Banyuhay’s Baybayin Typepad hereby called as Baybayin Typepad No.01.

Yes, as the name suggests this is the first. This great tool was developed by Banyuhay (a blog site written completely in Baybayin / ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔). This is the first typepad for Baybayin I found and it won’t be the last.

Nordenx is also creating his own Baybayin Typepad. I am also writing my own, two jQuery-based Baybayin Typepad, the first jQuery version is already online (if you can find where I am hosting it, congrats) but it is not ready yet.

Simple instructions are inside, no need to download any fonts as long as you are using Firefox 3.5; Safari 4; and the latest Chrome nightly. Enjoy ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔ and I hope this will encourage you to love and revive this beautiful writing system that we can call our own.

Follow up:

• Just type as you normally do, only in any Philippine languages.
• Mapping changes:
  
  • No letter ‘C/c’ and ‘X/x’ (still thinking if I will map ‘C/c’ to ‘K/k’)
  • ‘F/f’ maps to ‘P/p’
  • ‘J/j’ maps to ‘H/h’ - which is the common reading/pronunciation in Filipino (Jose = Hose; John = Huwan; Jesus = Hesus; June = Hunyo; Japan = Hapon)
  • Uppercase ‘N’ maps to Baybayin ‘Nga’ (or just press on your keyboard the letters ‘n’ and ‘g’ - it will change to ‘Nga’)
  • Lowercase ‘n’ maps to Baybayin ‘Na’
  • ‘Q/q’ maps to ‘K/k’ (eg. Quiapo, it sounds as Ki-ya-po; Quinto = Kin-to; Quezon = Ke-zon)
  • ‘V/v’ maps to ‘B/b’
  • ‘Z/z’ maps to ‘S/s’
• The genitive/possessive marker ng is an abbreviation of nang [naŋ] and should be written as ‘nang’.
• The plural marker mga is an abbreviation of manga [mɐ’ŋa] and should be written as ‘manga’. It will change automatically if simply typed as ‘mga’.
• To type the Baybayin pause/comma, type ‘|’ (bar), that is “Shift+\” on your keyboard.

I adjusted this typepad for my personal use initially, and so it differs a lot from the original. I also adjusted the Unicode within the official range of U+1700-1714 (including ‘Ra’), and U+1735-1736 (pause/comma, and full stop/period respectively).


This Baybayin Typepad was created by marfealsantiago from the orginal program by Monusoft.