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  2. Tagalog language - Wikipedia

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    A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ / tə-GAH-log, [4] native pronunciation: [tɐˈɡaːloɡ] ⓘ; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority, mostly as or through Filipino.

  3. Old Tagalog - Wikipedia

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    Old Tagalog ᬢᬕ᭄ᬮ Pronunciation [t̪ɐ̞gal̪og] Region: Philippines, particularly the present-day regions of Calabarzon and Mimaropa: Era: 10th century AD (developed into Classical Tagalog in c. 16th century; continued as modern Southern Tagalog dialects spoken in Aurora, [1] Calabarzon, and Mimaropa, most popular is the Batangas dialect.)

  4. Filipino language - Wikipedia

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    Filipino (English: / ˌ f ɪ l ɪ ˈ p iː n oʊ / ⓘ, FIH-lih-PEE-noh; [1] Wikang Filipino, [ˈwi.kɐŋ fi.liˈpi.no̞]) is a language under the Austronesian language family.It is the national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of the Philippines, lingua franca (Karaniwang wika), and one of the two official languages (Wikang opisyal/Opisyal na wika) of the country, with English. [2]

  5. Baybayin - Wikipedia

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    Baybayin (ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔, [a] Tagalog pronunciation: [bajˈbajɪn]) or Sulat Tagalog, also called Basahan by Bicolanos, sometimes erroneously referred to as alibata, is a Philippine script widely used primarily in Luzon during the 16th and 17th centuries and prior to write Tagalog and to a lesser extent Visayan languages, Kampampangan ...

  6. Languages of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Malay language, a Malayo-Polynesian language alongside the Philippine languages, has had an immense influence on many of the languages of the Philippines. This is because Old Malay used to be the lingua franca throughout the archipelago, a good example of this is Magellan's translator Enrique using Malay to converse with the native ...

  7. History of the Philippines (900–1565) - Wikipedia

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    The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (LCI) is the earliest record of a Philippine language and the presence of writing in the islands. [10] The document measures around 20 cm by 30 cm and is inscribed with ten lines of writing on one side.

  8. Philippine languages - Wikipedia

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    The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group by R. David Paul Zorc (1986) and Robert Blust (1991; 2005; 2019) that include all the languages of the Philippines and northern Sulawesi, Indonesia—except Sama–Bajaw (languages of the "Sea Gypsies") and the Molbog language—and form a subfamily of Austronesian languages.

  9. Tagalog people - Wikipedia

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    Specific origin narratives of the Tagalog people contend among several theories: Eastern Visayas – Research on the Philippine languages hypothesize a Greater Central Philippine subfamily that includes, among others, the Bisayan languages and Tagalog, the latter vaguely assumed to have originated somewhere in the Eastern Visayas. [citation needed]