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Tagalog

A language of Philippines

ISO 639-3: tgl

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

Baklanova, Ekaterina. 2006. "Morphological assimilation of borrowings in Tagalog."  

Brichoux, Robert. 1972. Acoustic correlates of stress in Tagalog: Spectrographic studies of relative amplitude, relative frequency, and length.

Cena, R. M. 1979. "Double representations for some loan words in Tagalog."  

Cena, R. M. 1979. "On resurrecting buried agents in certain Tagalog verbs."  

Cena, R. M. 1979. "Tagalog counterexamples to the accessibility hierarchy."  

Elkins, Richard E. 1990. "Some comments on language enrichment."

French, Koleen M. 1988. Insights into Tagalog: Reduplication, infixation, and stress from nonlinear phonology.  

Gonzalez, Andrew B. 1981. "Tagalog accent revisited: Some preliminary notes."

Hagberg, Lawrence Raymond. 2006. An autosegmental theory of stress.  

Katagiri, Masumi. 2006. "Topichood of the Philippine topic: revisited from a cross-linguistic perspective."  

Kroeger, Paul R. 1991. Phrase structure and grammatical relations in Tagalog.

Kroeger, Paul R. 1993. "Another look at subjecthood in Tagalog."

Kroeger, Paul R. 1993. Phrase structure and grammatical relations in Tagalog.

Kroeger, Paul R. 1998. "Clitics and clause structure in Tagalog."

McFarland, Curtis D. 2006. "Deictic pronouns in Philippine languages."  

McFarland, Curtis D. 2008. "Deictic pronouns in Philippine languages."

Pascasio, Emy M. 1981. "How value orientations affect social relationships through language use."

Pittman, Richard S. 1956. "Descriptive linguistics applied to Tagalog."

Pittman, Richard S. 1966. "Tagalog -um- and mag-: an interim report."

Pittman, Richard S. 1973. "The writing of proper names in Tagalog."

Pittman, Richard S. 1984. "The morphology/syntax division is a universal."

Saclot, Maureen Joy D. 2006. "On the transitivity of the actor focus and patient focus constructions in Tagalog."  

Santiago, Alfonso O. 1984. The elaboration of a technical lexicon of Pilipino.

Stuart, Luis Umali. 2006. "The -in grid: a mathematical order in language by way of Tagalog verb phrases."  

Wolfenden, Elmer and Rufino Alejandro, editors. 1957. Intensive Tagalog conversation course.

Wolfenden, Elmer. 1961. A re-statement of Tagalog grammar.

Wolfenden, Elmer. 1961. A re-statement of Tagalog grammar: Appended with José Rizal’s Nueva ortografía del lenguaje Tagalog.

Wolfenden, Elmer. 1968. "Tagalog root classes."

Wolfenden, Elmer. 1974. Review of: Tagalog reference grammar, by Paul Schachter and Fe T. Otanes.

Wolff, John U. 1993. "Why roots add the affixes with which they occur: a study of Tagalog and Indonesian adjective formations."

Vernacular Publications

Ang aking mga kaibigang Aeta. 1991.

Magadal kitam ti iba a upos (Let's study another language; A phrase book to learn to read and speak in Palanan-Agta, Tagalog and English). 2006.

Makabasa kitamon 1: U istorya hide a alistu a basaan ti Pahanan-Agta, Tagalog sakay ti Ingles (Easy reading stories 1). 2006.

Pag-aralan natin ang tungkol sa pera. 1982.