Tagalog
A language of Philippines
| Population | 21,500,000 in Philippines (2000 census). Population total all countries: 23,853,200. |
| Region | Manila, most of Luzon, and Mindoro. Also in Canada, Guam, Libya, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States. |
| Language maps |
Northern Philippines, reference number 45 Southern Philippines, reference number 45 |
| Dialects | Lubang, Manila, Marinduque, Bataan, Batangas, Bulacan, Puray, Tanay-Paete, Tayabas. |
| Classification | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine, Greater Central Philippine, Central Philippine, Tagalog |
| Language use | Trade language. |
| Language development | Fully developed. Bible: 1905. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | Used as the basis for the development of Filipino [fil]. Christian. |
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
ALEJANDRO, Rufino; WOLFENDEN, Elmer, editors. 1957. Intensive Tagalog conversation course.
BAKLANOVA, Ekaterina, author. 2006. "Morphological assimilation of borrowings in Tagalog."
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BAUTISTA, Ma. Lourdes S., author. 1977. "The noun phrase in Tagalog-English code switching."
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CENA, R. M., author. 1979. "Double representations for some loan words in Tagalog."
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CENA, R. M., author. 1979. "On resurrecting buried agents in certain Tagalog verbs."
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CENA, R. M., author. 1979. "Tagalog counterexamples to the accessibility hierarchy."
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CHAN-YAP, Gloria, author. 1977. "Hokkien Chinese loanwords in Tagalog."
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ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1990. "Some comments on language enrichment."
FRENCH, Koleen M., author. 1988. Insights into Tagalog: Reduplication, infixation, and stress from nonlinear phonology.
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GONZALEZ, Andrew B., author. 1981. "Tagalog accent revisited: Some preliminary notes."
HAGBERG, Lawrence R., author. 2006. An autosegmental theory of stress.
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KATAGIRI, Masumi, author. 2006. "Topichood of the Philippine topic: revisited from a cross-linguistic perspective."
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KROEGER, Paul R., author. 1991. Phrase structure and grammatical relations in Tagalog.
KROEGER, Paul R., author. 1993. "Another look at subjecthood in Tagalog."
KROEGER, Paul R., author. 1993. Phrase structure and grammatical relations in Tagalog.
KROEGER, Paul R., author. 1998. "Clitics and clause structure in Tagalog."
MCFARLAND, Curtis D., author. 1978. "Definite objects and subject selection in Philippine languages."
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MCFARLAND, Curtis D., author. 2006. "Deictic pronouns in Philippine languages."
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MCFARLAND, Curtis D., author. 2008. "Deictic pronouns in Philippine languages."
PELAEZ-SOBERANO, Rosa, author. 1977. "The dialects of Marinduque Tagalog."
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PITTMAN, Richard S., author. 1956. "Descriptive linguistics applied to Tagalog."
PITTMAN, Richard S., author. 1966. "Tagalog -um- and mag-: an interim report."
PITTMAN, Richard S., author. 1973. "The writing of proper names in Tagalog."
PITTMAN, Richard S., author. 1984. "The morphology/syntax division is a universal."
PITTMAN, Richard S., author. n.d.. Verbal gender in Tagalog.
RAFAEL, Teresita C., author. 1978. "Topic in Tagalog revisited."
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SACLOT, Maureen Joy D., author. 2006. "On the transitivity of the actor focus and patient focus constructions in Tagalog."
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SANTIAGO, Alfonso O., author. 1984. The elaboration of a technical lexicon of Pilipino.
STUART, Luis Umali, author. 2006. "The -in grid: a mathematical order in language by way of Tagalog verb phrases."
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WOLFENDEN, Elmer, author. 1961. A re-statement of Tagalog grammar.
Vernacular Publications
Ang aking mga kaibigang Aeta. 1991.

