Hey Guys, pretty cool tat on Brandon. But what is the proper word for “earth” in Tagalog? “mundo” is spanish isn’t it?

Thanks!

Correct – a closer translation of Earth could be daigdig or lupa

,,correct,he wrote it in old style,thankz KUYA VERA…..gUd luck sa laro…

,,correct,he wrote it in old style,thankz KUYA VERA…..gUd luck sa laro…

yeah i was thinking about that when i first saw his tat, i was sounding it out, and i was thinking to myself “world”? he probably just did what most filipinos here in the states do who don’t speak tagalog (guilty of doing it sometimes) is literally translate the word, by finding out how to say “earth” thinking the tagalog equivalent is like english where earth means the planet AND the element….then i also thought to myself….dang i for one would not like to tell the guy his tat is wrong, i’d probably be thrown into a chokehold lol

actually, with the Baybayin alphabet it’s very difficult to spell out some of the tagalog words. It’s a mistake that most people do when they don’t know much about the writing. The alphabet doesn’t have a complete set of vowels and therefore some words can’t be spelled out properly. Probably why he wrote “mundo” over “lupa” or “daidig”.
ps. I wanted to write something on my back with the old letters but realized what I wanted to write wasn’t compatible with the Baybayin alphabet.

re JM – Lupa is very very doable, and only takes two characters

Hangin- sa baybayin o alibata/alifata in arabic, pag binasa mo ang salitang hangin HA -NGI- NA, disregard ang letrang “A” ang salita namang MUNDO ay di yan native na salita kundi Spanish yan. Kaya ang dapat ay ” DAIGDIG” sa baybayin “DAYIGaDIGa, silent “A” vowels.

tama yung hangin but in original baybayin it should be HA NGI only