21st Century Literature
On this information about some ides from the first topic on Week 1 lesson is all about on 21st Century Literature you are expected to know what are does: Week 1 1.Alibata o Alphabet Alibata means Alphabet not Baybayin. It’s a commonly known fact for us Filipinos that Baybayin was the language used by certain ethno-linguistic groups in Luzon and Visayas, but primarily by the Tagalogs during the pre-colonial era of the Philippines. Since then, it has evolved into the language we currently use today. However, the language of Baybayin is often interchanged with the term Alibata, and is believed to be one and the same. But this is far from the truth. Is Alibata the same as Baybayin? Alibata was a term coined by Paul Rodriguez Verzosa in 1914. He based this term on the Arabic alphabet alif, ba, and ta from the Maguindanao Moros and was turned into Alibata afterward. The reason why Alibata is a wrong term is that there is no clear or strong evidence that pre-colonia