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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Abakada alphabet, Baybayin, Bisalog, Doctrina Christiana, Englog, Filipino language, Il nuovo dizionario filippino, In the Claws of Brightness, Laguna Copperplate Inscription, Leo James English, Magandang Balita Biblia, Maria Odulio de Guzman, Philippine kinship, Tagalog grammar, Tagalog phonology, Taglish, Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido. Excerpt: Tagalog (Tagalog: ) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a quarter of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by most of the rest. It is the first language of the Philippine region IV (CALABARZON and MIMAROPA), of Bulacan and of Metro Manila. Its standardized form, officially named Filipino, is the national language and one of two official languages of the Philippines, the other being English. It is related to other Philippine languages such as Ilokano, Bisayan, and Kapampangan, and more distantly to other Austronesian languages such as Hawaiian and Malagasy. Tagalog is not a tonal language. The Tagalog Baybayin script.The word Tagalog derived from tagailog, from taga- meaning "native of" and ilog meaning "river." Thus, it means "river dweller." Very little is known about the history of the language. However, according to linguists such as Dr. David Zorc and Dr. Robert Blust, the Tagalogs originated, along with their Central Philippine cousins, from Northeastern Mindanao or Eastern Visayas. The first written record of Tagalog is in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription, written in 900 A.D, using fragments of the language along with Sanskrit, Malay, and Javanese. Meanwhile, the first known book to be written in Tagalog is the Doctrina Cristiana (Christian Doctrine) of 1593. It was written in Spanish and two transcriptions of Tagalog; one in the Baybayin script and the other in Latin script. Throughout the 333 years of Spanish occupation, ...