I built an app to learn conjugation for Filipino languages, and it features Baybayin heavily!
Hi everyone, I'm Sean, a half-Fiipino UX content designer from Australia.
I'm sure many of us in the diaspora (and increasingly, in the Philippines itself) have felt the struggle of learning your family's Filipino language, failing, and then never feeling you "fit in".
I've tried many apps in the past and, besides the fact they only really supported Tagalog, I found the content really shallow (kumusta ka, magandang umaga style phrasal learning only) and just not feeling "Filipino". They felt like a generic language app with Filipino (just Tagalog, really) pasted in.
So I built an app specifically for Filipino languages.
Ugát is an app that teaches you how Filipino words are constructed, one root at a time, using fun, interactive activities that teach more than mountains of grammar tables.
And most importantly Baybayin features prominently. I tried to shy away from just using Baybayin in a tokenised way. The moment you awaken each ugát has you tap on a Baybayin rune to awaken it (Maybe in the future I'll have you draw the rune!) that then starts the activity. Although I'm not teaching Baybayin explicitly, have it tried to embed it in the app's interactions and give it the reverence it deserves.
I'm planning to support other languages of the Philippines and the other script forms as well in the future.
Please give it a try, I'd love to hear your feedback and comments. The app is free.
Download it here: ugat.app/get
EDIT: all the Baybayin is inaccurate, thanks everyone to your feedback. I'll disable for now and come with a fixed version soon 🙏