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A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.. Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ /, tə-GAH-log; [3] [tɐˈɣaː.loɡ]; 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.
For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Filipino orthography ( Filipino: Ortograpiyang Filipino) specifies the correct use of the writing system of the Filipino language, the national and co- official language of the Philippines . In 2013, the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino released the ...
Baybayin ( ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔, [a] Tagalog pronunciation: [bajˈbajɪn]; also formerly known as alibata) is a Philippine script. The script is an abugida belonging to the family of the Brahmic scripts. Geographically, it was widely used in Luzon and other parts of the Philippines prior to and during the 16th and 17th centuries before ...
Write the date in the upper right corner. Write the recipient’s name on the line next to “Pay to the order of.”. Write the amount in numbers in the box with the dollar sign. On the row ...
Among the top 100 words in the English language, which make up more than 50% of all written English, the average word has more than 15 senses, [124] which makes the odds against a correct translation about 15 to 1 if each sense maps to a different word in the target language. Most common English words have at least two senses, which produces 50 ...
The Filipino language incorporated Spanish loanwords as a result of 333 years of contact with the Spanish language. In their analysis of José Villa Panganiban's Talahuluganang Pilipino-Ingles (Pilipino-English dictionary), Llamzon and Thorpe (1972) pointed out that 33% of word root entries are of Spanish origin.
v. t. e. Philippine English (similar and related to American English) is a variety of English native to the Philippines, including those used by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos and English learners in the Philippines from adjacent Asian countries.
This word is shared with British English. Course — Academic degree. Shared with British English partly due to the Spanish word curso and its borrowed form in many Philippine languages. Cutex — Nail polish. Dean's lister — A person awarded a dean's list; Despedida party — A farewell party. The word despedida is a borrowing from Spanish