1. Pre-Colonial Philippines
... their language. Writing. Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, most Filipinos were already capable of reading and writing. Father Pedro Chirino wrote in his book Relacion de las Islas Filipinas (1602), " there is scarcely anybody who cannot read and write in letters prior to the island of Manila."" Most well-known of the scripts used then was the alibata (also ... ...
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