Handwritten Baybayin Symbols Dataset

The Baybayin or “Alibata” became existing around year 1200’s. Baybayin was also approved in the house of congress in the Philippines to be a national writing system of the Philippines with a House bill No. of 1022. The extinct symbols are classified as syllabaries in the study of writing systems. The Philippine syllabaries have 17 signs representing 14 consonants which composed of ba, da, ka, ga, la, ha, ma, nga, na, sa, pa, wa, ya, ta, and 3 standalone vowels composes of a, i, and u at some late point the Mangyan’s added ra. The dataset contains 36,000 handwritten baybayin symbols data set.巴 Baybayin（Baybayin，亦称"阿拉巴塔Alibata"）约形成于1200年代。菲律宾国会已通过第1022号众议院法案，将巴Baybayin定为菲律宾官方书写系统。在书写系统研究领域中，此类已消亡的符号被归类为音节文字（syllabary）。菲律宾音节文字共包含17个字符，对应14个辅音（ba、da、ka、ga、la、ha、ma、nga、na、sa、pa、wa、ya、ta）与3个独立元音（a、i、u）；后期曼雅诺族（Mangyan）又新增了对应ra音的字符。本数据集共收录36000个手写巴Baybayin符号样本。