Handwritten Baybayin Symbols Dataset

Baybayin was also approved in the house of congress in the Philippines to be a national writing system of the Philippines with a House bill No. of 1022. The extinct symbols are classified as syllabaries in the study of writing systems.

The Philippine syllabaries have 17 signs representing 14 consonants which composed of ba, da, ka, ga, la, ha, ma, nga, na, sa, pa, wa, ya, ta, and 3 standalone vowels composes of a, i, and u at some late point the Mangyan’s added ra. The dataset contains 36,000 handwritten baybayin symbols data set.