Here are some examples of how chinese pictographs evolved into characters, and how pictures evolved into writing symbols....
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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...
Read MoreWhen the Spanish came to the Philippines, they found in use the baybayin, a native writing system, that was an abjad or a consonant writing system. The baybayin was still in its early stages of development as a writing system, lacking symbols for all the vowel sounds of the various Philippine dialects and not yet totally uniform in appearance across varying geographic regions. The Philippine Baybayin is one of a dozen or so...
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