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Matagal na akong hindi nakakagamit ng traditional na media. Purong digital na ako ngayon, ang gamit ko diyang panulat ay yung Wacom Bamboo pen & tablet.
Pero, oo nakagamit na ako ng Chinese brush noong high school ako.
The Laguna Copperplate provides proof that our ancestors used old Javanese Kavi as our writing system around the 8th to 10th century. While there is no tangible evidence of Baybayin script being used prior to 15th century other than reports by the Spaniards that literacy is widespread among the natives, suggesting that the writing system has been employed and well grounded in the islands for a very long time already prior to their arrival, probable time-lines can be deduced by theorists when Baybayin replaced or evolved from old Javanese Kavi as our writing system between the 10th to 15th century.
Literacy was introduced to Japan in the form of the Chinese writing system, by way of South Korea before the 5th century but its use became didn't become until widespread around the 7th to the 8th century. Afterward, they then started to use Chinese characters to write Japanese in a style known as man'yōgana, a syllabic script which used Chinese characters for their sounds in order to transcribe the words of Japanese speech syllable by syllable. Over time, new writing systems continued to evolve and eventually the developed into the 3 scripts of Modern Japanese; Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana.
So, to answer your question...
Even though both baybayin and Japanese writing systems began its development, or or evolution, or introduction, or divergence from much more older scripts (Indic/Brahmic/Kavi/Malay and Chinese/Korean) around the same time (sometime after the 9th & 10th century); because of the continuous usage of Japanese script - Japanese can be considered more matured and older (even though the current Modern Japanese system is much younger); while Baybayin script's development and usage stopped or stunted before it could mature or grow old. And even though Japanese Kana shares similar Indic influences as Baybayin Script, the Japanese Kanji's parent system (Chinese) has older neolithic origins.
In short - Japanese script is older than Baybayin script because its origins or parent systems, the Chinese logogram is older than Bramic script.