This is Based on an ancient Filipino script commonly known as “Alibata”. “Baybayin” is its proper name. In translation, the script means, LAhing KAyumanggi. Lahi=Country, Ethnicity, race, group. Kayumanggi means brown. These words are from old Tagalog, which have Malaysians roots. Before being called the “Philippines”, the sea-faring peoples living throughout the archipelago would be “people of the brown race”.

LA-KA is the first two syllables of LAhing KAyumanggi,

The three stars and sun with eight primary rays, of the Filipino flag represents the country’s provinces; and at each vertex of the triangle is a five-pointed golden yellow star, each of which, represent the country’s 3 main islands, Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao The Philippines flag was officially adopted on May 19, 1898.

• There are about 80 million people who live in the Philippines!

• There are 7,107 islands that make up the country of the Philippines. Amazingly though, there are only a few hundred of these islands that have people living on them

• There are over 70 different languages spoken in the Philippines with over 450 distinct dialects coming from those languages!

Kulintang is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally-laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have been playing for many centuries in regions of the Eastern Malay Archipelago — the Southern Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor.

Emilio Aguinaldo
A Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played an instrumental role during the Philippines’ revolution against Spain, and the subsequent Philippine-American War or War of Philippine Independence that resisted American occupation.
Aguinaldo became the Philippines’ first President March 22, 1897 – April 1, 1901. He was also the youngest (at age 29) to have become the country’s president.

Jose Rizal
An intellectual, artist, a writer, world traveler, and even a ladies man, Jose Rizal was a jack-of-all-trades. To his friends he was a “gem of a man” while his enemies considered him to be a great threat, and rightly so, for he became one of the most influential leaders of the Philippine Revolution. Persecuted for his beliefs, Rizal was made a martyr in 1896 and is considered a national hero.

Andrés Bonifacio
Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro (November 30, 1863 – May 10, 1897) was one of the chief leaders of the revolution of the Philippines against Spanish colonial rule, the first revolution in Asia against European colonial rule.