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Alibata Liwanag I by ~likhain

Categories Traditional Art > Typography > Calligraphy

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Submitted: November 11, 2007
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Calligraphy exercise. I haven't written alibata for a long time; this was the first alibata word I wrote in years.

Though this is more an experiment in writing than a finished calligraphy work, I wanted to post this to spark interest in writing alibata. Alibata is an old Philippine script derived from Arabic. (More info: [link] - excellent site)

The word is liwanag, which means light.

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~polidread

Nov 11, 2007, 5:44:50 PM

wow! elegant! uh, how is it pronounced, specifically?

coz i remember each alibata is a syllable much like nihonggo...i havent really understood how last syllables are read in modern words written as alibata

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~randyvaliente

Nov 11, 2007, 7:13:21 PM

whoa!!!! magandang design to sa tshirt a

~likhain

Nov 12, 2007, 6:11:08 AM

The symbols are la(li) - wa - na - ga -- I think I made a mistake, actually, since there shouldn't be a "ga" symbol at the very end. Oops. @_@ Its syllabication isn't so much Nihongo-ish as (according to the site) Mycenae-ish.

If I understood correctly, most last consonants aren't rendered with the notable exception of w.

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infinity less than three

~likhain

Nov 12, 2007, 6:11:35 AM

Or notebook or logo, diba? OK yung t-shirt... gawa ka. Hehe.

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infinity less than three

~cyphaflip