Tagalog

🗺️ Tagalog

Overview

• Language family: Austronesian
• Region: Central and Southern Luzon (e.g., Manila, Batangas, Laguna)
• Number of speakers: 95% (it is the national language of the Philippines
• Status: widely spoken
• Alternate names/spellings: Pilipino, Filipino

Phonology

Consonants

Phoneme	Spelling	Distribution and quality of allophones
Stops
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr pulá ('red')	Unreleased or nasally released phrase-finally.<ref name="SchachterOtanes" />Template:Rp
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr bugháw ('blue')	Unreleased or nasally released phrase-finally.<ref name="SchachterOtanes" />Template:Rp
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr tao ('human')	When followed by Template:IPA, may be pronounced Template:IPA, particularly by speakers in urban areas. Unreleased or nasally released phrase-finally.<ref name="SchachterOtanes" />Template:Rp
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr diláw ('yellow')	When followed by Template:IPA, may be pronounced Template:IPA, particularly by speakers in urban areas. Unreleased or nasally released phrase-finally.<ref name="SchachterOtanes" />Template:Rp
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr kamáy ('hand')	Post-velar Template:IPA or otherwise relatively far back in the vocal tract for at least some speakers, even when adjacent to front vowels.<ref name="SchachterOtanes" />Template:Rp Unreleased or nasally released phrase-finally.<ref name="SchachterOtanes" />Template:Rp Intervocalic Template:IPA tends to become Template:IPA, as in bakit ('why') or takot ('fear').<ref name="SchachterOtanes" />Template:Rp
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr gulay ('vegetable')	Post-velar Template:IPA or otherwise relatively far back in the vocal tract for at least some speakers, even when adjacent to front vowels.<ref name="SchachterOtanes" />Template:Rp Unreleased or nasally released phrase-finally.<ref name="SchachterOtanes" />Template:Rp
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr mag-uwî ('to return home'). Normally unwritten at the end of a word (galà, 'roaming') or between vowels (Taal, a town in Batangas)	A glottal stop occurring at the end of a word is often elided when it is in the middle of a sentence, especially by speakers of the Manila Dialect. The preceding vowel then undergoes compensatory lengthening: Template:IPA > Template:IPA "isn't it?".<ref name="SchachterOtanes">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp It is preserved in some dialects of Tagalog. In the Palatuldikan (diacritical system), it is denoted by the pakupyâ or circumflex accent when the final syllable is stressed (e.g. dugô 'blood'), and by the paiwà (grave accent) if unstressed (susì 'key').
Fricatives
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr sangá ('branch')	When followed by Template:IPA, it is often pronounced Template:IPA, particularly by speakers in urban areas.
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr siyam ('nine') Template:Angbr sya (a form of siya, second person pronoun) ⟨sh⟩ shabú ('methamphetamine')	May be pronounced Template:IPA, especially by speakers in rural areas.
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr hawak ('being held')	Sometimes elided in rapid speech.
Affricates
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr tiyan ('stomach') Template:Angbr pangungutyâ ('ridicule') Template:Angbr tsokolate ('chocolate');	May be pronounced Template:IPA (or Template:IPA if spelled Template:Angbr or Template:Angbr), especially by speakers in rural areas.<ref name="SchachterOtanes" />Template:Rp
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr Diyos ('god') Template:Angbr dyaryo ('newspaper') ⟨j⟩ jaket ('jacket')	May be pronounced [dj], especially by speakers in rural areas.
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr pizza; Template:Angbr tatsulok ('triangle')	May be pronounced Template:IPA, especially by rural speakers and in some urban areas.
Nasals
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr matá ('eye')
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr nais ('desire')	In names borrowed from Spanish, it may assimilate to Template:IPA before labial consonants (e.g. Template:IPA in San Miguel, Template:IPA in San Pedro, and Template:IPA in Infanta) and to Template:IPA before velar ones (e.g. Template:IPA and Template:IPA) and, rarely, glottal Template:IPA.
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr ngitî ('smile')	Assimilates to Template:IPA before Template:IPA and Template:IPA (pampasiglâ, 'invigorator') and to Template:IPA before Template:IPA (pandiwà, 'verb'); some people pronounce Template:IPA as a geminate consonant Template:IPA, as in Angono.
Laterals
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr larawan ('picture')	Depending on the dialect, it may be dental/denti-alveolar or alveolar (light L) within or at the end of a word. It may also be velarized (dark L) if influenced by English phonology.
Rhotics
Template:IPAslink	Template:Angbr saráp ('deliciousness'); kuryente ('electricity')	Traditionally an allophone of Template:IPA, the Template:IPA phoneme may be now pronounced in free variation between the standard alveolar flapped Template:IPA, a rolled Template:IPA, an approximant Template:IPA and Template:Citation needed span

Vowels

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Notable Features

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Grammar

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• Pronouns: (list with examples)
• Verb system: (tense, aspect, mood, affixes)
• Noun structure: (plurals, possessives, cases)
• Other features: (e.g., reduplication, evidentials)

Vocabulary

Core Words

English	Tagalog
Water	Tubig
Sun	Araw
Mother	Ina
House	Bahay

Numbers

1 = Isa 2 = Dalawa 3 = Tatlo 4 = Apat 5 = Lima

Sample Text

Example Sentence

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• Translation: (Provide English or national language translation)

Longer Text

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Related Dialects

• Related Dialect 1
• Related Dialect 2
• Parent Language

References

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