Sambali Language
Hi! A native sambal speaker here. So, for starters I’ve been learning, and studying baybayin like how it came to be, where it descended (primarily cause I was studying thai). Anyway, as I was continuing my research, I noticed that sambali as a language doesn’t pair with baybayin.
Let me explain; in sambali we say maganda umaga as “Maabig a bokla”, in here a gives off “uh” sound rather than conventional “ah” sound. This doesn’t really highlight it in baybayin, which made me look if there’s a script for sambali which would likely similar to baybayin.
However, to no luck there’s no surviving evidence that something like that exists. Fortunately, historical accounts suggest that there might be a writing script used by ancient sambali, cause spaniards noted that “Zambales already had a writing at the time of the conquest. Also, sambal is first recorded in 1601 making it one of the earliest recorded Philippine language. Altho the evidence for the script is strong; the evidence for the exact physical writing practices of Sambal specifically is less direct due to lack of surviving written records.
To date, no discoveries have been made with regards to written manuscripts of the alphabet (if there is). Personally, I hope that a discovery can be made, this will be vital specially cause the sambal variety that is being spoken in my municipality is slowly dying.