It is very well possible that some of the symbols that became incorporated in the baybayin system were first used to denote ideas—with no specific sounds or words in mind. Objects and thought forms come before language so it is not unfeasible that the writing symbols of the baybayin evolved from pictographs that initially represented ideas/concepts and objects. That theory is illustrated here on how the BA baybayin symbol very...
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“Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience, and written words are the symbols of spoken words.” (Interpretation, Aristotle) In a sense, phonetics may justly be called a study of symbols. The process we call speech is essentially a system of symbolization that has been built up to make negotiable from one individual to another his concept of certain objects, qualities, acts, ideas… (Source: Phonetics: An Introduction to...
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