page_title: Filipino orthography
section_title: Pre-Hispanic scripts
hierarchical_section_title: Filipino orthography / History / Pre-Hispanic scripts
caption_attribution_description: The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (circa 900AD) from the Laguna de Bay area in Luzon, the Philippines. The script used is based on the Indian Pallava used around the same period throughout India and Southeast Asia, showing heavy influence in the pre-colonial period of Philippine culture.
context_page_description: Filipino orthography specifies the correct use of the writing system of the Filipino language, the national and co-official language of the Philippines.
  In 2013, the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino released the Ortograpiyang Pambansa, a new set of guidelines for writing the Filipino language.
context_section_description: During the Pre-Hispanic Era, most of the languages of the Philippines were written in abugida, an ancient segmental writing system. Examples of this ancient Philippine writing system which descended from the  Brāhmī script are the Kawi, Baybayin, Buhid, Hanunó'o, Tagbanwa, Butuan, Kulitan and other Brahmic family of scripts known to antiquity. A controversial and debatable script of the Philippines is the Eskayan script.
  Baybayin script began to decline in the 17th century and became obsolete in the 18th century. The scripts that are still in use today by the indigenous Mangyan groups of the Philippines are the Buhid and the Hanunó'o script.
caption: Laguna Copperplate Inscription (c. 900)