

The indigenous poet Francisco Balagtas (1788–1862) is known as the foremost Tagalog writer, his most notable work being the 19th-century epic Florante at Laura.
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Īmong others, Arte de la lengua tagala y manual tagalog para la administración de los Santos Sacramentos (1850) in addition to early studies of the language. Pedro de Sanlucar and published as Vocabulario de la lengua tagala in Manila in 1754 and then repeatedly reedited, with the last edition being in 2013 in Manila. Further compilation of his substantial work was prepared by P. He prepared the dictionary, which he later passed over to Francisco Jansens and José Hernandez. Clain spoke Tagalog and used it actively in several of his books. The first substantial dictionary of the Tagalog language was written by the Czech Jesuit missionary Pablo Clain in the beginning of the 18th century. In 1613, the Franciscan priest Pedro de San Buenaventura published the first Tagalog dictionary, his Vocabulario de la lengua tagala in Pila, Laguna. In 1610, the Dominican priest Francisco Blancas de San Jose published the Arte y reglas de la lengua tagala (which was subsequently revised with two editions in 17) in Bataan. Throughout the 333 years of Spanish rule, various grammars and dictionaries were written by Spanish clergymen. The Doctrina was written in Spanish and two transcriptions of Tagalog one in the ancient, then-current Baybayin script and the other in an early Spanish attempt at a Latin orthography for the language. The first known complete book to be written in Tagalog is the Doctrina Christiana (Christian Doctrine), printed in 1593. Possible words of Old Tagalog origin are attested in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription from the tenth century, which is largely written in Old Malay. Linguists such as David Zorc and Robert Blust speculate that the Tagalogs and other Central Philippine ethno-linguistic groups originated in Northeastern Mindanao or the Eastern Visayas. The word Tagalog is derived from the endonym taga-ilog ("river dweller"), composed of tagá- ("native of" or "from") and ilog ("river"). Main article: Old Tagalog The base consonants and vowels of the Baybayin script, the original writing system of Tagalog *tubiR (water) and *zuRuʔ (blood) became Tagalog tubig and dugô. Proto-Philippine *ŋajan (name) and *hajək (kiss) became Tagalog ngalan and halík. Proto-Philippine *r, *j, and *z merged with /d/ but is /l/ between vowels. For example, Proto-Philippine *dəkət (adhere, stick) is Tagalog dikít and Visayan & Bikol dukot. In most Bikol and Visayan languages, this sound merged with /u/ and. Tagalog differs from its Central Philippine counterparts with its treatment of the Proto-Philippine schwa vowel *ə. It is closely related to the languages spoken in the Bicol Region and the Visayas islands, such as the Bikol group and the Visayan group, including Waray-Waray, Hiligaynon and Cebuano.

Being Malayo-Polynesian, it is related to other Austronesian languages, such as Malagasy, Javanese, Indonesian, Malay, Tetum (of Timor), and Yami (of Taiwan). Tagalog is a Northern Philippine language within the Austronesian language family. Problems playing this file? See media help.
