it once had an alphabet and its own letters
that vanished as though a tempest had set upon
a boat on a lake in a time now long gone.
"To My Fellow Children”,
attributed to Jose Rizal, 1869
Baybayin is a pre-spanish Philippine writing system. The word baybayin is a Tagalog term that refers to all the letters used in writing a language, that is to say, an “alphabet” – although, to be more precise, the baybayin is more like a syllabary. It is from the root baybáy meaning, “spell.” Nowadays we can see baybayin used in tattoos, grafittis, artwork etc.
for more info about baybayin please visit these links:
http://www.baybayin.com
http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/bayeng1.htm#literacy