My last name in Baybayin

Did you know that these 3 symbols make up my last name (without the consonants), and represent the following 3 sounds that make up my last name: “Ba-bu-ti”?

Oh you did? Nevermind.

Baybayin is an “ancient” script used widely prior to the coming of the Spanish. Another script is the Hanunuo by Mangyans in Mindoro.

And… practitioners and artists of this script like Christian Cabuay, creator of Baybayin.com, who was nice enough to write my last name “Balbutin” in Baybayin. (Which is written as “Babuti”, since consonants were not used until after the arrival of the Spanish and before the show “Wheel of Fortune.”)

I tried walking into a job fair with this as my name tag and for some reason I didn’t get any leads.

I also tried speed dating with this as my name tag, and I ended up at the bar by myself drinking beer and eating chicharon. It was good!

Geeze can’t anyone read in ancient Philippine scripts anymore??