Alibata or Baybayin is known in Unicode as the Tagalog script and originated from the Javanese script Old Kawi. Alibata is a pre-hispanic Alibata Philippine writing system. The writing system is a part of the Brahmic family and believed to be in use as early as the 14th century. Alibata pursued to be in use during the colonization of Spain to the Alibata Philippines until the late 19th century. Baybayin is a term literally means spelling Alibata.