Tagalog

The Tagalog script (also known as "Baybayin" and "Alibata") was used in the Philippines to write Tagalog, Bisaya, Ilocano, and other languages until the mid-1700s. Philippine languages are now normally written with the Latin alphabet.

Consonants have an inherent -a vowel. The other two vowels (-i and -u) are indicated by a diacritic above (for -i) or below (for -u) the consonant. Vowels at the beginning of syllables are represented by their own, independent characters. Syllables ending in a consonant were usually written without the final consonant, but could also be written with a special diacritic (introduced in 1620) to cancel out the inherent vowel.

• Font sizes for the various fonts above were adjusted to make them roughly the same size for the sake of comparison.
• The characters used for the font samples do not necessarily form words but were chosen for visual variety:
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