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Santos, there are three accents used in Tagalog:• In fact, some sources point out that are actually of Spanish origin.

The baybayin could not distinguish between the vowels i and e, or u and o, or the consonants d and r.

It lacked other consonants too, but more important, it had no way to cancel the vowel sound that was inherent in each consonant.

This is because the sound produced in the initial consonant of words such as "germs" or "juniper" is not native to the traditional Filipino tongue.

Variants are permitted, by the way, e.

K and W are not used until the introduction of the abakada.

This page only covers spelling rules designed for Tagalog; other major Philippine languages may have their own spelling rules that differ from KWF's recommendations.

Spellings using K gained acceptance as it was used for Tagalog words in the Spanish-Tagalog translating dictionaries by Pedro Serrano-Laktaw and was widely used by the Katipunan, nevertheless, Tagalog spelling is not completely standardized until the mid-20th century and spelling varied by the writers' preference.

Many of the writing systems of Southeast Asia descended from ancient scripts used in India over 2000 years ago.