the previous comment makes several incorrect statements about baybayin's status as a script the origin of its name and what sanskrit refers to baybayin is a single script like latin arabic or devanagari in all their variations are single scripts it is most definitely not a group or family of scripts no separate sulat bisaya ever existed and authentic kapampangan script was merely the most notable regional variant of baybayin there were no special regional variations despite the false impression given by inaccurately wirtten samples of baybayin from various regions as written by foreigners not used to writing the letters correctly scott villamor and especially santamar a have shown clearly that the handwriting of different people in the same region even from the same document shows moer differences than the so called regional scripts written in distorted handwriting by foreigners modern kulitan or s lat kapampangan is the recent invention of one person who took a th century french visitor's interpretation of baybayin letters as written in an unknown source or sources from pampanga and combined these with a structure derived from a combination of kawi and korean han'gul it is a modern constructed script with no relation to how it was actually written when it was used as part of daily life the name baybayin originated with tagalog speakers not the spanish who at first just called it sus letras their letters baybayin comes from a word that originally meant to put things in a sequence or a particular order sanskrit is a language not a script or group of scripts all these facts can be checked in the existing literature anyone who wants to write an accurate article should consult at the very least paul morrow's web site ang baybayin santamar a's el baybayin en el archivo de santo tomas villamor's the old philippine writing la antigua escritura filipina and marcilla y mart n's estudio de los antiguos alfabetos filipinos