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	Tagalog language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tagalog, as its standardized counterpart, Filipino, is the principal language of the national media in the Philippines.
		Tagalog is also spoken natively by inhabitants living on the islands of Lubang, Marinduque, and the northern and eastern parts of Mindoro.
		Tagalog was written in an abugida called Baybayin prior to the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tagalog (2930 words)

	Tagalog grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tagalog grammar is the study of grammar of the Tagalog language.
		While Tagalog nouns are not inflected, they are usually preceded by case markers.
		It's a common misconception that Tagalog is frequently spoken in the passive voice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tagalog_grammar (1870 words)

	Wikinfo \| Tagalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tagalog is an Austronesian language, commonly spoken in the Philippines, and is the basis for the national language called Filipino.
		Tagalog does not distinguish gender for the singular third person unlike English's he, she, and it.
		Tagalog used to have diacritics in written text to indicate pronunciation, but has gradually been dropped in modern texts.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Tagalog (966 words)

	Tagalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tagalog is an Austronesian language commonly spoken in the Philippines and is the basis for the language called Filipino.
		The between d and r in the Tagalog is as recent as the colonization as in baybayin.
		Since Tagalog speakers were the ethnic group closest to Spanish seat of government(Malacañang culture and education; they formed the native and after the independence Tagalog formed the of the national language despite the fact another vernacular Cebuano had more speakers at that time.
	www.freeglossary.com /Tagalog (3446 words)

	Tagalog
		Tagalog is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines and functions as its lingua franca.
		Tagalog is a non-tonal language with a relatively small number of phonemes.
		Tagalog is considered to be a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/june/Tagalog.html (1085 words)

	Tagalog grammar: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tagalog grammar is the study of grammar grammar quick summary:
		Grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of a language....
		Tagalog verbs are morphologically complex and take on a variety of affixes reflecting focus, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tagalog_grammar.htm (2238 words)

	Overview of the Tagalog Language to Help You Learn Tagalog
		Tagalog (ta-GA-log) is the national language of the Republic of the Philippines.
		Tagalog was selected as the national language of the Philippines in 1946 because it had a rich literary tradition, it was the most widely spoken language in the Republic, and it was considered the language of the revolution against colonialism.
		Tagalog is a phonetic language and the letters and letter combinations virtually always have the same pronunciation.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/tagalog/overview.htm (650 words)

	Tagalog Interpreters and Translators :: Tagalog Facts
		Tagalog is a member of the Western group of Malayo-Polynesian languages.
		Tagalog grammar has retained its original form and has remained unchanged as new words have been incorporated.
		In Tagalog, the particle "po" is used to express respect to the person to whom you are speaking.
	www.tagaloginterpreters.com /mainlanguage.html (581 words)

	Learn Tagalog Language - Free Conversational Tagalog Lessons Online - Common Tagalog Words and Phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When you learn Tagalog grammar or sentence structure, you will not naturally understand it when it's spoken to you.
		The key is to immerse yourself in the language and use it as often as possible in order to build up your skills of speaking it and listening to it, understanding and comprehending it...
		Tagalog Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
	www.phrasebase.com /learn/tagalog.php (1866 words)

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		Tagalog verb affixes on appropriate stems permit speakers to represent focal participants as passive experiencers or as active controllers of events.
		Tagalog also characterizes types of people as, for example, intelligent, stupid, slow, lazy, easily irritated, or having abnormal thoughts.
		Tagalog voice prefixes may also be active with \endash }{\i\cgrid0 um}{\cgrid0 - giving agent focus, often implying intransitive voluntary or involuntary action or intransitive process, though in some constructions \endash }{\i\cgrid0 um}{\cgrid0 - appears to be transitive.
	www.udc.es /dep/lx/cac/aaa1998/palmer.doc (4225 words)

	Salita Blog: Waray-Waray articles
		To put this into perspective, Tagalog has three markers that each fit into three categories: absolutive, which is represented by ang; ergative (genitive), which is represented by ng; and oblique, which is sa.
		Tagalog has a similar system but on an ostensibly colloquial level; yung and nung.
		In Tagalog, to express "a man called" one could say may tumawag na lalaki or tumawag ang isang lalaki; and yes, tumawag ang lalaki is also possible.
	salitablog.blogspot.com /2004/11/waray-waray-articles.html (796 words)

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		According to Cano, [64] the first Tagalog grammar was written by Agustin de Alburquerque, and Retana [65] considered him one of the possible authors of the present Doctrina.
		In so far as Quiñones [71] was the author of a grammar and dictionary claimed to have been printed at Manila in 1581, we have shown what various writers have said, and though we must conclude that the work was probably not printed, it is certain that he wrote in the Tagalog language.
		How thoroughly Chirino himself had grasped the fundamentals of Tagalog is evident from his three chapters [94] on the language and letters of the natives in which he prints the Ave Maria in Tagalog and reproduces the Tagalog alphabet--its first appearance in a European publication.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16119/16119-8.txt (14452 words)

	Tagalog grammar: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tagalog grammar is the study of grammar (grammar: Studies of the formation of basic linguistic units) of the Tagalog language (Tagalog language: more facts about this subject).
		There are three types of case markers: absolutive (absolutive: in ergative-absolutive languages, the absolutive case is used to mark the subject of...
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) (nominative (nominative: The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb)), ergative (ergative: the term ergative is used in grammar in two different meanings:...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/tagalog_grammar (1830 words)

	Learn Tagalog Grammar
		Tagalog verbs are notoriously difficult for the seemingly countless ways they can be inflected.
		Unless you're exposed to Tagalog on a regular basis over several years, it's almost impossible to naturally pick up all the permutations without active study.
		Developed by the Defense Language Institute, the FSI Headstart Philippine Course consists of 13 CDs and an illustrated companion book.
	www.tagaloglang.com /grammar.htm (112 words)

	SSEALC Courses
		Coverage of basic Tagalog grammar, with equal emphasis on reading, writing, conversation, and comprehension.
		The Fall quarter covers the sound system of the language, vocabulary used in everyday life, and grammar, with equal emphasis on reading, writing, conversation, and comprehension.
		Reinforcement of basic grammar and vocabulary acquired in the beginning and the intermediate levels.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/ssealp/scourse.html (859 words)

	Doctrina Christiana
		According to Cano,64 the first Tagalog grammar was written by Agustin de Alburquerque, and Retana65 considered him one of the possible authors of the present Doctrina.
		In so far as Quiñones71 was the author of a grammar and dictionary claimed to have been printed at Manila in 1581, we have shown what various writers have said, and though we must conclude that the work was probably not printed, it is certain that he wrote in the Tagalog language.
		How thoroughly Chirino himself had grasped the fundamentals of Tagalog is evident from his three chapters94 on the language and letters [28] of the natives in which he prints the Ave Maria in Tagalog and reproduces the Tagalog alphabet—its first appearance in a European publication.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16119/16119-h/16119-h.htm (15374 words)

	Carl Rubino's Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He received his B.A. in Spanish from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Barbara for his Reference Grammar of Ilocano in 1997.
		His publications include the following books: Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar, Tagalog Standard Dictionary [with Grammatical Outline], Encyclopedia of the World’s Major Languages, Past and Present (with Jane Garry), and A Pedagogical Grammar of Tausug, as well as numerous articles on typological issues, Philippine languages, Malagasy and Yup’ik Eskimo.
		A Pedagogical Grammar of the Language of Jolo [With both Grammatical and Cultural Indexes] Kensington: Dunwoody Press.
	iloko.tripod.com (404 words)

	Sana'y Maulit Muli: The Grammar of Agency and Emotion in a Tagalog Transnational Cinematic Melodrama
		In Tagalog, persistent inner feelings and emotions (damdamin and kalooban) are contrasted with transient feelings (pakiramdam) caused by outside events that effect the body or the emotions.
		Tagalog voice prefixes may also be active with -um- giving agent focus, often implying intransitive voluntary or involuntary action or intransitive process, though in some constructions -um- appears to be transitive.
		To the extent that this grammar is taken as authentic by young Filipinos living in the ambit of the United States, its study may help us to understand their experiences.
	www.udc.es /dep/lx/cac/aaa1998/palmer.htm (7524 words)

	207. Rizal, Dapitan, 5 April 1896
		This is not possible for me while I am here where I lack everything and yet I have the conceit and the pretension to write a Tagalog grammar which, if it cannot be better than the published ones, at least should offer something more than they.
		If I have proposed the g, it is to follow the spirit of the Tagalogs and the history of their writing in the forms of mga and ng which are pronounced mag and nag.
		Besides, the v already has the Spanish sound for the Tagalogs, while the w is a relatively new consonant and cnnsequently it is easier for it to provide a sound whose transcription needs to be fixed.
	www.univie.ac.at /voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/rizal/rbcor207.htm (2164 words)

	Amazon.ca: Basic Tagalog: For Foreigners and Non-Tagalogs: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fourth, very little about the book is cumulative: each chapter treats a separate area of Tagalog grammar topically, and only rarely, do the later lessons build on earlier ones.
		I would guess that when this book was written, it was aimed at an audience of people who had access to Tagalog speakers on a regular basis (e.g., Americans living in the Phillipines).
		Tagalog is a fascinating language indeed and it deserves better treatment than it has had up til now- if anything, this is probably the best Tagalog book I have.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0804819106 (684 words)

	Tagalog Software CDs - Language Resource Online
		Some of the courses use Tagalog speech recognition technology to compare your pronunciation of Tagalog words to pre-recorded native Tagalog speakers.
		If you have limited time to learn Tagalog, audio courses are a versatile method of learning Tagalog while you drive or when you have the time, but not access to a computer.
		Some people are "audio" learners and Tagalog audio Cds are the best way to learn Tagalog pronunciation and gain conversational Tagalog fluency.
	www.languageresourceonline.com /languages/learn-tagalog.html (355 words)

	Tagalog language - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The word Tagalog was derived from tagá-ílog, from tagá- meaning "native of" and ílog meaning "river", thus, it means "resident beside the river." Since there are no surviving written samples of Tagalog before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, very little is known about the history of the language.
		It is the only one out of over 160 Philippine languages that is officially taught in schools.
		The word boondocks which means 'rural' or 'back country', was imported by American soldiers stationed in the Philippines from the Tagalog bundok, which means "'mountain." Another word is cogon, which is a type of grass, used for thatching.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Tagalog_language (2961 words)

	Learning Tagalog is Easy!
		Revised and expanded just recently, it includes an outline of Tagalog grammar, lyrics to Tagalog folk songs, and a list of common Tagalog proverbs.
		It features native Tagalog speakers, games and quizzes.
		Learn Filipino is a new, highly rated course book for students of Tagalog.
	www.tagaloglang.com /learn (230 words)

	Articles - Tagalog language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tagalog (pronunciation:) is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines.
		Before the arrival of the Spanish, Tagalog had three vowel phonemes:.
		This word came from the Tagalog word ´´kugon.´´ There is also ´´ylang-ylang´´, which is a type of flower known for its fragrance.
	www.ranau.net /articles/Tagalog_language (2090 words)

	yourDictionary.com.Comprehensive and Authoritative Language Portal
		A Grammar of Sûdovian Prussian by Joseph Poshka
		Seneca (Mingo) Extensible Grammar by Lachler, McElwain, and Burke
		Turkmen Grammar by Jon Garrett, Meena Pallipamu, and Greg Lastowka
	www.yourdictionary.com /grammars3.html (428 words)

	Modern Tagalog: Grammatical Explanations and Exercises for Non-Natives, Tagalog, Learn\|Grammar, Printed Matter
		I purchased this book to brush up on my Tagalog grammar and within the first chapter, I began to remember so many concepts that I forgot.
		Speaking Tagalog is one thing, writing is another and this book is PERFECT for helping you remember grammatical rules for writing and conversational as well.
		Tagalog, the language of the Philippines, is spoken by millions of people.
	www.worldlanguage.com /Polish/Products/105789.htm (354 words)

	TAGALOG 2005 MAIN PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		major languages spoken in the Philippines, mostly by people from the Tagalog regions in the main island of Luzon.
		To make your study of the language both challenging and enjoyable, we have incorporated a number of learning activities to enhance your listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in Tagalog.
		It will give you a list of corresponding Tagalog words for the English term that you are looking for, and you can choose which one is appropriate in terms of usage.
	www.seasite.niu.edu /Tagalog/Tagalog_mainpage.htm (366 words)

	Learn Tagalog Language Skills with Tagalog Software and Tagalog Resources
		You'll find lots of resources that can be of use to everyone from beginners who're just starting to learn Tagalog to more advanced students who've been studying Tagalog for some time already.
		Whether you're learning Tagalog for personal enrichment or because you need the language for business, travel, or school, you can benefit from reading our language overview, listening to our conversational Tagalog phrases in the Tagalog Resources section, and playing our online games.
		Read the descriptions of our Tagalog software programs, and you will find products that help can you speak Tagalog, learn Tagalog vocabulary, review the Tagalog alphabet, understand Tagalog grammar, and master Tagalog pronunciation.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/tagalog/tagalog.htm (380 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:tgl
		Acoustic correlates of stress in Tagalog: Spectrographic studies of relative amplitude, relative frequency, and length.
		French, Koleen M. Insights into Tagalog: Reduplication, infixation, and stress from nonlinear phonology.
		Kroeger, Paul R. Phrase structure and grammatical relations in Tagalog.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=tgl (322 words)

	iLoveLanguages - Your Guide to Languages on the Web
		Short list of Tagalog words (numbers, actions, titles) used in martial-arts training, with their English translations.
		Common and useful Tagalog phrases (such as how to say "good morning") with their English meanings, plus numbers, days/months, and other common vocabulary.
		Information includes beginning Tagalog lessons, verb charts, introduction to Tagalog grammar, searchable dictionaries, a Tagalog chatroom, sample lessons plans and activities for teachers, vocabulary, literature, and lots more.
	ilovelanguages.com /index.php?category=Languages\|By+Language\|Tagalog (194 words)

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