Buhid script is one of the indigenous script used in Philippines which closely related to Baybayin and Hanuno’o script. It is still used today by the Mangyan people and mainly found on the island of Mindoro to write their language, Buhid, together with the Filipino Latin script. The Buhid script […]
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Keyman Baybayin Keyboard Released
I would like to introduce the new keyboard for typing Baybayin (Tagalog) script on Keyman. I created the keyboard based on the Unicode 13.0 standard. The keyboard layout in this initial version is meant to be used for typing on computer or laptop with Windows, Linux, and MacOS. The layout […]
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Philippines Scripts Keyboard For Linux
Basicaly, I’m not a native user of the Philippines scripts. My projects mostly dealing with the Sundanese script and manuscript. Somehow I’m interested to explore more Southeast Asian scripts out of Indonesia. Philippines scripts are my next goal to learn and master. Recently I’m using the Xubuntu based on Focal […]
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Playing Karinding in Stockholm
During my visit to Stockholm to attend the 2019 Wikimania conference, I had the opportunity to play karinding as a fatigue reliever, after a day of attending the conference. Karinding is a jawharp musical instrument from Sundanese culture, in West Java, Indonesia. On a slightly drizzly night, after returning from […]
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