# Tagalog

Tagalog is spoken in the Philippines by about 22 million people, it is known as Filipino internationally and is the official language of the Philippines. Tagalog comes under Austronesian languages. Tagalog is derived from taga-ilog, taga usually means "native of" and ilog means "river" thus, taga-ilog means "river dweller". The language uses fragments from Sanskrit, Malay and Javanese. The early archaeological evidence of the use of Tagalog is the Laguna Copperplate Inscription.
Tagalog is spoken by Filipinos in the Philippines and Filipinos abroad (either native speakers of Tagalog or non-native speakers who studied Tagalog in the Philippines or elsewhere). It contains loanwords from Malay, Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, English, and other languages. Tagalog pronunciation can be difficult because of lexical stress and the presence of glottal stops which are normally not written in everyday writing.
* Why study Tagalog
* How to use this Tagalog Wikibook
* About Tagalog

## Mga Aralín (Lessons)
### Saligang Tagalog (Basic Tagalog)

* Mga Alpabeto — The Alphabets
* Mga Pambati — Greetings such as Kumusta?, and Telling your name
* Itó, Iyán and Iyón — This, That, That (over there)
* Mga Bilang/Numero — Numbers

### Balarilà - Grammar

* w:Tagalog grammar
* Mga Pang-urì (Adjectives)
* Mga Pang-abay (Adverbs)
* Ang Panahunan (Conjugation)
* Mga Pangatníg (Conjunctions)
* Mga Pang-angkóp (Ligatures)
* Mga Pangngalan at Pangmarká (Nouns and Markers)
* Mga Panlapì: Mgá Unlapì, Gìtlapì, Hulapì, át Kabilàan (Affixes: Prefixes, Middle Affixes, Suffixes and Side-to-Side Affixes)
* Mga Pang-ukol (Prepositions)
* Mga Panghalíp (Pronouns)
* Mga Panakláw (Quantification Words)
* Mga Pananóng (Question Words)
* Mga Pandiwa (Verbs)

## Pánitikán - Literature
### Major literary works

* Ibong Adarna
* Florante at Laura
* Works of José Rizal
** Noli Me Tangere
** El Filibusterismo

### Cultural works

* Mga Alamát (Legends)
* Mga Maiiklíng Kuwento (Short Stories)
** Ang Pinagmulán ng Lahì
** Karunungan: Tangláw ng Kalayaan
** Nagíng Sultán si Pilandók
* Mga Tugmâ (Rhymes)
** Bahay Kubò
** Lerón-Lerón Sintá
* Mga Tulâ (Poems)

## Mga Karagdagang Pahina (Appendices)

* Tagalog Extra Tagalog
* Appendix A: Mgá Salitáng Binaligtád (Reversed Words) •
* Appendix B: Mgá Pangalan ng mgá Bansâ (Country Names) •
* Appendix C: Mgá Salitáng-balbál (Slang) •
* Appendix D: Mgá Salawikaín (Proverbs) •
* Appendix E: Common phrases •
* Phrasebook •
* Dictionary •

## Silipin din (See also)

* oldwikisource:Category:Tagalog

### External links

* Komisyón sa Wikang Filipino (Commission on the Filipino Language)
* Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (Center for the Filipino Language) at UP Diliman

## Tungkól sa Aklát na Itó (About This Book)

| II | This is a Category II Language. |
* Mga May-akdâ ng Wikibook Tagalog (Authors of the Tagalog Wikibook)
* Kasaysayan ng Wikibook Tagalog (History of the Tagalog Wikibook)

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