Language name: | TAGALOG |
UPSID number: | 2414 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | Austro-Tai, West Malayo-Polynesian |
This language has | 23 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.497927311 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: | p b m g N ? h j w I U k "e a "o tD dD tS f s nD r[ l |
Comment: | Tagalog is spoken in Manila, most of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philipines. /o/ and /e/ were in predictable alternation with /i/ and /u/ in native vocabulary but loanwords from Spanish and English have added contrastive function to the mid vowels. |
Source(s): | Bloomfield, L. 1917. Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis (University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature 3/2-3). University of Illinois, Urbana. Schachter, P. and Otanes, F.T. 1972. Tagalog Reference Grammar. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. |