Sueat is the Visayan word for “write”. Hence “Haguisan Writing” or “Malaya Writing”. Chirino, Lopez, Mentrida, Ezguerra, these are familiar names to Baybayin practitioners and enthusiasts. These are the names of Spanish chroniclers who documented Baybayin writing in their own hand writing. After many years of writing Baybayin myself, why not give my hand style a name? After all, it is as distinctive as any writing style.
I often recommend that folks learn to write the characters first and not to focus on transliterations. Developing a flow is important, just as you would when writing in roman alphabet. Remember learning how to write when you were a kid, then learning how to write cursive? It takes practice. Challenge yourself and write Baybayin. Write it for yourself and to honor the written literary aspect of the Philippine culture. Because as we all know, Baybayin is not dead.
I now introduce you to Sueat Haguisan/Malaya. My chart that anyone can use as a guide to learn how to write and practice Baybayin. Please refrain from using or distributing my images for any reason, permission is neither given nor implied.
Ok, so I’ve been experimenting. Actually, I’ve experimented with this back in 1999 in Sacramento, Ca. at a Festival setting. There are actually pendants out there with this written on it. Thoughts of modernizing Baybayin (alibata) has swirled in my head for a long time as well as in the minds of countless Baybayin artisans and practitioners. I’ve never been adamantly opposed to modernizing it, I prefer to transliterate traditionally but I have become much more flexible as modifying the script has become more acceptable by the Baybayin community at large. What I am most opposed to is the ease of novices to overlook and ignore traditional Baybayin as their introduction to the script…then turn around and tell me I’m writing it incorrectly, AS IF!. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, seen here 
