Baybayin has seen a resurgence in popularity lately, and for reasons that are unclear. Perhaps the popularity of Kdramas and animé has made us suddenly envious of our Asian neighbors who do not use boring Latin-based alphabets.
There’s a problem though. Baybayin, being a pre-Hispanic writing system, is completely unfit to write modern Filipino. I believe that if we want to sustain the popularity of Baybayin it has to be modified into something functional. This has been done before by some Baybayin fans, some even adding the equivalent of phonetically redundant English letters such as C and Q. I personally don’t think this is the right way to extend Baybayin since it has existed independently from any Latin-based alphabet.
