Alibata
contents origins artifacts language usage extinction revival
 

Alibata is an ancient writing system that was used in what is now the Philippines. Although it was all but extinguished by Western colonization, variants of it are still used in parts of Mindoro and Palawan, and it is also increasingly used by Filipino youth as a way to express their identity.

Updates

2008.06.23

Added a section on Mangyan script

2006.08.16

I tried to clean the HTML a little. Let me know if there is any breakage. I may try to update this site some day and get rid of the tables, but I'm not making any promises.

More noteworthy, there is now a new, hopefully cleaner version of the alibata font with updated instructions on how to use it. They were created by editing the original fonts (which are no longer available on this site, although they are floating around on the net if you really want them for some reason) using FontForge, an awesome Open Source (BSD license) font editor that requires an X server

2003.03.09

You can leave comments (comment) if you want.

2002.10.30

I have moved the transliterator to fatoprofugus.net but have not fixed any of its bugs. Please continue to

2002.10.29

I have been in the process of migrating this site to fatoprofugus.net and as such may not have been receiving your e-mails. Please note that my . To reach me, , or leave a comment.

I have not yet moved the transliterator. I realize that it is borked, but I no longer have write permission to its host. I promise to have it fixed soon.

Paper

The information in these pages is based on a paper written on May 8, 1998 by Victor Ganata for Professor Gary Holland at the University of California at Berkeley. It was subsequently revised and rewritten as HTML on April 11, 1999. If you have any comments, questions, suggestions, or criticisms, please or leave a comment.

Table of Contents

Miscellany


Last revision: April 17, 2001
Second revision: January 22, 2001
First revision: March 04, 2000
Creation date: April 11, 1999

Go to
fato profugus
 
 
[ Table of Contents ] [ Origins of Alibata ]

[ Documents and Artifacts which use Alibata ] [ Languages rendered by Alibata ]

[ Features (Usage guide) ] [ Reasons for extinction ]

[ Attempts to revive and reform the writing system ]