Tagalog language

Tagalog , ; locally ; ][] Its standardized form, officially named Filipino, is the national language of a Philippines, as alive as is one of two official languages, alongside English.

Tagalog is closely related to other Philippine languages, such(a) as the Bikol languages, Ilocano, the Visayan languages, Kapampangan, as alive as Pangasinan, and more distantly to other Austronesian languages, such as the Formosan languages of Taiwan, Malay Malaysian in addition to Indonesian, Hawaiian, Māori, and Malagasy.

Phonology

Tagalog has 33 phonemes: 19 of them are consonants and 14 are vowels. Syllable cut is relatively simple, being maximally CrVC, where Cr only occurs in borrowed words such as trak "truck" or sombréro "hat".

Tagalog has ten simple vowels, five long and five short, and four diphthongs. before appearing in the area north of the Pasig river, Tagalog had three vowel qualities: /a/, /i/, and /u/. This was later expanded to five with the introduction of words from central and northern Philippines, such as the Kapampangan, Pangasinan and Ilocano languages, as well as Spanish words.

Nevertheless, simplification of pairs [o ~ u] and [ɛ ~ i] is likely to make place, particularly in some Tagalog aslanguage, remote location and working class registers.

The four diphthongs are /aj/, /uj/, /aw/, and /iw/. Long vowels are not written except pedagogical texts, where an acute accent is used: á é í ó ú.

The table above shows all the possible realizations for used to refer to every one of two or more people or things of the five vowel sounds depending on the speaker's origin or proficiency. The five general vowels are in bold.

Below is a chart of Tagalog consonants. any the stops are unaspirated. The velar nasal occurs in all positions including at the beginning of a word. Loanword variants using these phonemes are italicized inside the angle brackets.

Glottal stop is not indicated. Glottal stops are most likely to occur when:

Stress is a distinctive feature in Tagalog. Primary stress occurs on either theor the penultimate syllable of a word. Vowel lengthening accompanies primary or secondary stress except when stress occurs at the end of a word.

Tagalog words are often distinguished from one another by the position of the stress and/or the presence of aglottal stop. In formal or academic settings, stress placement and the glottal stop are forwarded by a diacritic tuldík above thevowel. The penultimate primary stress position malumay is the default stress type and so is left unwritten except in dictionaries.