Tagalog language

Tagalog Spoken in: Philippines Region: Central and south LuzonTotal speakers: First language (in the Philippines): 22 million[1]

Overall (worldwide): ≈ 65 million total speakers

Ranking: 51 Language family: Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
  Borneo-Philippines
   Central Philippine
    Tagalog Writing system: Latin(Filipino variant);
Historically written in Baybayin Official status Official language in: Philippines(in the form of Filipino) Regulated by: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino(Commission on the Filipino language) Language codes ISO 639-1: tl ISO 639-2: tgl ISO 639-3: tglNote: This page may contain IPAphonetic symbols in Unicode.

Tagalog (pronounced [tɐˈgaːlog]) is one of the major languages of the Republic of the Philippines. It is the most spoken Philippine language in terms of number of speakers.

Tagalog, in its standardized form, Filipino, is the principal language of the national television and radio news media in the Philippines. (Newspapers are almost completely in English.) It is the primary language of public education. As Filipino, it is, along with English, a co-official language and the sole national language. Tagalog is widely used as a lingua franca throughout the country, and in overseas Filipino communities. However, while Tagalog may be prevalent in many fields, English, to varying degrees of fluency, is more prevalent in the fields of government and business.

1 History
2 Classification
3 Features
4 Phonology
5 Historical changes
6 Grammar
7 Writing system
- 7.1 Baybayin
- 7.2 Latin alphabet
  - 7.2.1 ng and mga
8 Vocabulary and borrowed words
9 Religious literature
10 Examples
11 References
12 External links

History

The Tagalog Baybayin script

The word Tagalog derived from tagá-ílog, from tagá- meaning "native of" and ílog meaning "river." Thus, it means "river dweller." There are no surviving written samples of Tagalog before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century. 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.[2][3]

The first known book to be written in Tagalog is the Doctrina Cristiana (Christian Doctrine) of 1593. It was written in Spanish and two versions of Tagalog; one written in the Baybayin script and the other in the Latin alphabet. Throughout the 333 years of Spanish occupation, there were grammar and dictionaries written by Spanish clergymen such as Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala by Pedro de San Buenaventura (Pila, Laguna, 1613), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala (1835) and Arte de la lengua tagala y manual tagalog para la administración de los Santos Sacramentos (1850). Poet Francisco Baltazar (1788–1862) is regarded as the foremost Tagalog writer. His most famous work is the early 19th-century Florante at Laura.

In 1937, Tagalog was selected as the basis of the national language by the National Language Institute. In 1959, Tagalog, which had been renamed Wikang Pambansa ("National Language") by President Manuel L. Quezon in 1939, was renamed by the Secretary of Education, Jose Romero, as Pilipino to give it a national rather than ethnic label and connotation. The changing of the name did not, however, result in acceptance at the conscious level among non-Tagalogs, especially Cebuanos who had not accepted the selection.[4]

In 1971, the language issue was revived once more, and a compromise solution was worked out—a "universalist" approach to the national language, to be called Filipino rather than Pilipino. When a new constitution was drawn up in 1987, it named Filipino as the national language.[4] The constitution specified that as that Filipino language evolves, it shall be further developed and enriched on the basis of existing Philippine and other languages.

Classification

Tagalog is a Central Philippine language within the Austronesian language family. Being Malayo-Polynesian, it is related to other Austronesian languages such as Indonesian, Malay, Fijian, Maori (of New Zealand), Hawaiian, Malagasy (of Madagascar), Samoan, Tahitian, Chamorro (of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands), Tetum (of East Timor), and Paiwan (of Taiwan). It is closely related to the languages spoken in the Bicol and Visayas regions such as Bikol, Hiligaynon, Waray-Waray, and Cebuano.

Languages that have made significant contributions to Tagalog are Spanish, English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Sanskrit, Old Malay, and Tamil language .

Features

Geographic distribution

The Tagalog homeland, or Katagalugan, covers roughly much of the central to southern parts of the island of Luzon - particularly in Aurora, Bataan, Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Metro Manila, Nueva Ecija, Quezon, and Rizal. Tagalog is also spoken natively by inhabitants living on the islands of Lubang, Marinduque, and the northern and eastern parts of Mindoro. It is spoken by approximately 64.3 million Filipinos, 96.4% of the household population[5]. 21.5 million, or 28.15% of the total Philippine population[6], of which speak it as a native language.

Tagalog speakers are found in other parts of the Philippines as well as throughout the world, though its use is usually limited to communication between Filipino ethnic groups. It is the sixth most-spoken language in the United States with over a million speakers[7]. In Canada it is spoken by 235,615 [8].

Official status

Predominantly Tagalog-speaking regions in the Philippines.

Main article: Filipino language

Tagalog was declared the official language by the first constitution in the Philippines, the Constitution of Biak-na-Bato in 1897.[9]

In 1935, the Philippine constitution designated English and Spanish as official languages, but mandated the development and adoption of a common national language based on one of the existing native languages.[10] After study and deliberation, the National Language Institute, a committee composed of seven members who represented various regions in the Philippines, chose Tagalog as the basis for the evolution and adoption of the national language of the Philippines.[11][4] President Manuel L. Quezon then, on December 30, 1937, proclaimed the selection of the Tagalog language to be used as the basis for the evolution and adoption of the national language of the Philippines.[11] In 1939 President Quezon renamed Tagalog as wikang pambansâ (national language).[4] In 1939, the language was further renamed as "Pilipino".[4]

The 1973 constitution designated Tagalog (as Pilipino), along with English, as an official language and mandated the development and formal adoption of a common national language to be known as Filipino.[12] The 1987 constitution designated Filipino as the national language, mandating that as it evolves, it shall be further developed and enriched on the basis of existing Philippine and other languages.[13]

Since 1940, Tagalog has been taught in schools throughout the Philippines. It is the only one out of over 170 Philippine languages that is officially used in schools and businesses, (info from culturegrams)[citation needed] though Article XIV, Section 7 of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines does specify, in part:

Subject to provisions of law and as the Congress may deem appropriate, the Government shall take steps to initiate and sustain the use of Filipino as a medium of official communication and as language of instruction in the educational system.[13]

The regional languages are the auxiliary official languages in the regions and shall serve as auxiliary media of instruction therein.[13]

Filipino

Filipino, the national language of the Philippines, is the de facto standardized variant of the Tagalog language. Other Philippine languages have also influenced Filipino, primarily through migration from the provinces to Metro Manila of speakers of those other languages.

Dialects

At present, no comprehensive dialectology has been done in the Tagalog-speaking regions, though there have been descriptions in the form of dictionaries and grammars on various Tagalog dialects. Ethnologue lists Lubang, Manila, Marinduque, Bataan, Batangas, Bulacan, Tanay-Paete, and Tayabas as dialects of Tagalog. However, there appear to be four main dialects of which the aforementioned are a part; Northern (exemplified by the Bulacan dialect), Central (including Manila), Southern (exemplified by Batangas), and Marinduque.

Some example of dialectal differences are:

Many Tagalog dialects, particularly those in the south, preserve the glottal stop found after consonants and before vowels. This has been lost in standard Tagalog. For example standard Tagalog ngayon (now, today), sinigang (broth stew), gabi (night), matamis (sweet), are pronounced and written ngay-on, sinig-ang, gab-i, and matam-is in other dialects.
In Teresian-Morong Tagalog, [r] is usually preferred over [d]. For example, bundók, dagat, dingdíng, and isdâ become bunrok, ragat, ringring, and isra, as well as their expression seen in some signages like "sandok sa dingding" was changed as "sanrok sa ringring".
In many southern dialects, the progressive aspect prefix of -um- verbs is na-. For example, standard Tagalog kumakain (eating) is nákáin in Quezon and Batangas Tagalog. This is the butt of some jokes by other Tagalog speakers since a phrase such as nakain ka ba ng pating is interpreted as "did a shark eat you?" by those from Manila but in reality means "do you eat shark?" to those in the south.
Some dialects have interjections which are a considered a trademark of their region. For example, the interjection ala e! usually identifies someone from Batangas while as does hane?! in Morong and Teresa.

Perhaps the most divergent Tagalog dialects are those spoken in Marinduque. Linguist Rosa Soberano identifies two dialects, western and eastern with the former being closer to the Tagalog dialects spoken in the provinces of Batangas and Quezon.

One example are the verb conjugation paradigms. While some of the affixes are different, Marinduque also preserves the imperative affixes, also found in Visayan and Bikol languages, that have mostly disappeared from most Tagalog dialects by the early 20th century; they have since merged with the infinitive.

Manileño Tagalog Marinduque Dialect English Susulat sina Maria at Fulgencia kay Juan. Másúlat da Maria at Fulgencia kay Juan. "Maria and Fulgencia will write to Juan." Mag-aaral siya sa Maynila. Gaaral siya sa Maynila. "He will study in Manila." Magluto ka! Pagluto ka! "Cook!" Kainin mo iyan. Kaina mo yaan. "Eat that." Tinatawag tayo ni Tatay. Inatawag nganì kitá ni Tatay. "Father is calling us." Tutulungan ba kayó ni Hilarion? Atulungan ga kamo ni Hilarion? "Will Hilarion help you (pl.)?"

Code-switching

Taglish and Englog are names given to a mix of English and Tagalog. The amount of English vs.Tagalog varies from the occasional use of English loan words to outright code-switching where the language changes in mid-sentence. Such code-switching is prevalent throughout the Philippines and in various of the languages of the Philippines other than Tagalog.

Nasirà ang motorcycle ko kahapon!

"My motorcycle broke down yesterday!"

Huwág kang maninigarilyo, because it is harmful to your health.

"Never smoke cigarettes, ..."

Code switching also entails the use of foreign words that are Filipinized by reforming them using Filipino rules, such as verb conjugations. Users typically use Filipino or English words, whichever comes to mind first or whichever is easier to use.

Magshoshopping kami sa mall. Sino ba ang magdadrive sa shoppingan?

"We will go shopping at the mall. Who will drive to the shopping center anyway?"

Although it is generally looked down upon, code-switching is prevalent in all levels of society; however, city-dwellers, the highly educated, and people born around and after World War II are more likely to do it. Politicians as highly placed as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo have code-switched in interviews.

The practice is common in television, radio, and print media as well. Advertisements from companies like Wells Fargo, Wal-Mart, Albertsons, McDonald's, and Western Union have contained Taglish.

The Chinese and the non-Tagalog communities in the Philippines also frequently code-switch their language, be it Cebuano or Min Nan Chinese, with Taglish.

Phonology

Main article: Tagalog phonology

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Tagalog has 21 phonemes; 16 consonants and five vowels. Syllable structure is relatively simple. Each syllable contains at least a consonant and a vowel.

Vowels

Before the arrival of the Spanish, Tagalog had three vowel phonemes: /a/, /i/, and /u/. This was later expanded to five vowels with the introduction of Spanish words.

They are:

/a/ an open front unrounded vowel similar to English "father"
/ɛ/ an open-mid front unrounded vowel similar to English "bed"
/i/ a close front unrounded vowel similar to English "machine"
/o/ a close-mid back rounded vowel similar to English "forty"
/u/ a close back unrounded vowel similar to English "flute"

There are four main diphthongs; /aɪ/, /oɪ/, /aʊ/, and /iʊ/.

Consonants

Below is a chart of Tagalog consonants. All the stops are unaspirated. The velar nasal occurs in all positions including at the beginning of a word.

Bilabial Dental Palatal Velar Glottal Nasalm n ŋ PlosiveVoiceless p t k ʔ Voiced b d g Fricatives h Flapɾ Laterall Approximantw j

Stress

Stress is phonemic in Tagalog. Primary stress occurs on either the last or the next-to-the-last (penultimate) syllable of a word. Vowel lengthening accompanies primary or secondary stress except when stress occurs at the end of a word. Stress on words is very important, they differentiate words with the same spellings, but with different meanings, e.g. tayo(to stand) and tayo(us; we)

Sounds

/a/ is raised slightly to [ɐ] in unstressed positions and also occasionally in stressed positions (‘inang bayan’ [in'ɐŋ 'bɐjən])
Unstressed /i/ is usually pronounced [ɪ] as in English "bit"
At the final syallable, /i/ can be pronounced as [i ~ e ~ ɛ] as [e ~ ɛ] was an allophone of [ɪ ~ i] in final syllables.
Unstressed /ɛ/ and /o/ can sometimes be pronounced as [i ~ ɪ ~ e] and [u ~ ʊ ~ ɔ] except final syllables. [o~ ʊ ~ ɔ] and [u ~ ʊ] were also former allophones.
Unstressed /u/ is usually pronounced [ʊ] as in English "book"
The diphthong /aɪ/ and the sequence /aʔi/ have a tendency to become [eɪ ~ ɛː].
The diphthong /aʊ/ and the sequence /aʔu/ have a tendency to become [oʊ ~ ɔː].
/k/ between vowels has a tendency to become [x] as in Spanish "José", whereas in the initial position it has a tendency to become [kx].
Intervocalic /g/ and /k/ tend to become [ɰ] (see preceding).
/ɾ/ and /d/ are sometimes interchangeable as /ɾ/ and /d/ were once allophones in Tagalog.
A glottal stop that occurs at the end of a word is often omitted when it is in the middle of a sentence, especially in the Metro Manila area. The vowel it follows is then usually lengthened. However, it is preserved in many other dialects.
/o/ tends to become [ɔ] in stressed positions.
/niy/, /siy/, /tiy/, and /diy/ may be pronounced as [nj]/[nij], [sj]/[sij], [tj]/[tij] and [dj]/[dij], respectively, especially in but not limited to rural areas.
/ts/ may be pronounced as [ts], especially in but not limited to rural areas.
/e/ or /i/ before s-consonant clusters have a tendency to become silent.

Historical changes

Tagalog differs from its Central Philippine counterparts with its treatment of the Proto-Philippine schwa vowel *ə. In Bikol & Visayan, this sound merged with /u/ and [o]. In Tagalog, it has merged with /i/. For example, Proto-Philippine *dəkət (adhere, stick) is Tagalog dikít and Visayan & Bikol dukot.

Proto-Philippine *r, *j, and *z merged with /d/ but is /l/ between vowels. Proto-Philippine *ngajan (name) and *hajək (kiss) became Tagalog ngalan and halík.

Proto-Philippine *R merged with /g/. *tubiR (water) and *zuRuʔ (blood) became Tagalog tubig and dugô.

Grammar

Further information: Tagalog grammar

Writing system

Baybayin

Main article: Baybayin

Tagalog was written in an abugida called Baybayin prior to the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century. This particular writing system was composed of symbols representing three vowels and 14 consonants. Belonging to the Brahmic family of scripts, it shares similarities with the Old Kawi script of Java and is believed to be descended from the script used by the Bugis in Sulawesi.

Although it enjoyed a relatively high level of literacy, the script gradually fell into disuse in favor of the Latin alphabet during Spanish colonial rule.

There has been confusion of how to use Baybayin. Each letter in the Latin Alphabet is not represented with one of those in the Baybayin alphabet. Rather than letters being put together to make sounds as in Western languages. Baybayin uses symbols to represent syllables.

A "kudlit" resembling an apostrophe is used above or below a symbol to change the vowel sound after its consonant. If the kudlit is used above, the vowel is an "E" or "I" sound. If the Kudlit is used below, the vowel is an "O" or "U" sound. A special kudlit was later added by Spanish missionaries in which a cross placed below the symbol to get rid of the vowel sound all together, leaving a consonant. Previously, the final consonant was just left out, leaving the reader to use context to determine the final consonants.

Example:

Baybayin is encoded in Unicode version 3.2 in the range 1700-171F under the name "Tagalog".

Latin alphabet

Main article: Filipino orthography

Until the first half of the 20th century, Tagalog was widely written in a variety of ways based on Spanish orthography. When Tagalog became the national language, grammarian Lope K. Santos introduced a new alphabet consisting of 20 letters called ABAKADA in school grammar books called balarilà; A B K D E G H I L M N NG O P R S T U W Y.

As Pilipino, the national language, the alphabet was expanded in 1976 to include the letters C, CH, F, J, Q, RR, V, X, and Z in order to accommodate words of Spanish and English origin.

Filipino is the national language de facto based on Tagalog that borrows vocabulary from other languages. In 1987, the Filipino alphabet was reduced from 33 to 28; A B C D E F G H I J K L M N Ñ Ng O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.

ng and mga

The genitive marker ng and the plural marker mga are abbreviations that are pronounced nang [naŋ] and mangá [mɐ'ŋa]. Ng means "of" (ex. Siya ay kapatid ng nanay ko. She is the sister of my mother) while nang means "when" or "while." Mga denotes plurality (ex. Iyan ang mga damit ko. Those are my clothes).

Ex#1: Nang si Hudas ay madulas. - When Judas slipped.

Ex#2: Siya ay kumain nang nakatayo. - He ate while standing.

Vocabulary and borrowed words

Tagalog vocabulary is composed mostly of words of Austronesian origin with borrowings from Spanish, Min Nan Chinese (also known as Hokkien), Malay, Sanskrit, Arabic, Tamil, Persian, Kapampangan, languages spoken on Luzon, and others, especially other Austronesian languages.

Due to trade with Mexico via the Manila galleon from the 16th to the 19th centuries, many words from Nahuatl, a language spoken by Native Americans in Mexico, were introduced to Tagalog.

English has borrowed some words from Tagalog, such as abaca, adobo, aggrupation, barong, balisong, boondocks, jeepney, Manila hemp, pancit, and yaya, although the vast majority of these borrowed words are only used in the Philippines as part of the vocabularies of Philippine English.

Tagalog words of foreign origin chart

Main article: Tagalog loanwords

For the Min Nan Chinese borrowings, the parentheses indicate the equivalent in standard Chinese.

Tagalog meaning language of origin original spelling kumustá how are you? Spanish cómo está dasál pray Spanish rezar kabayo horse Spanish caballo silya chair Spanish silla umpisá start Spanish empezar kotse car Spanish coche sabón soap Spanish jabón (sabón in old Sp) relós watch Spanish reloj litrato picture Spanish retrato tsismis gossip Spanish chismes giyera/gyera/gera war Spanish guerra tsinelas slippers Spanish chinelas karne meat Spanish carne sapatos shoes Spanish zapatos arina/harina flour Spanish harina bisikleta bicycle Spanish bicicleta sugál gambling Spanish jugar (to play) baryo village Spanish barrio swerte luck Spanish suerte piyesta/pista celebration Spanish fiesta garáhe garage Spanish garaje ahente agent/salesman Spanish agente ensaymada a kind of pastry Catalanensaïmada kamote sweet potato Nahuatl camotli sayote chayote, choko Nahuatl hitzayotli atswete achioteNahuatl achiotl sili chili pepper Nahuatl chili tsokolate chocolate Nahuatl xocolatl tiyangge market Nahuatl tianquiztli sapote chico(fruit) Nahuatl tzapotl nars nurse English bolpen ballpoint pen English drayber/drayver driver English tráysikel tricycle English lumpia (/lum·pyâ/) spring roll Min Nan Chinese 潤餅 (春捲) siopao (/syó·paw/) steamed buns Min Nan Chinese 燒包 (肉包) pansít (/pyan·i·sit/) noodles Min Nan Chinese 便食 (麵) susì key Min Nan Chinese 鎖匙 kuya (see Philippine kinship) older brother Min Nan Chinese 哥亚 (哥仔) ate (/ah·chi/) (see Philippine kinship) older sister Min Nan Chinese 亜姐 (阿姐) bwisit annoyance Min Nan Chinese 無衣食 bakyâ wooden shoes Min Nan Chinese 木履 hikaw earrings Min Nan Chinese 耳鈎 (耳環) kanan right Malay kanan tulong help Malay tolong sakit sick Malay sakit tanghalì afternoon Malay tengah hari dalamhatì grief Malay dalam + hati luwalhatì glory Malay luar + hati duryán durian Malay durian rambután rambutan Malay rambutan batík spot Malay batik saráp delicious Malay sedap asa hope Sanskrit आशा salitâ speak Sanskrit चरितँ (cerita) balità news Sanskrit वार्ता (berita) karma karma Sanskrit कर्म alak liquor Persian عرق (arak) manggá mango Tamil மாங்காய்(mángáy) bagay thing Tamil வகை(vagai) hukóm judge Arabic حكم salamat thanks Arabic سلامة bakit why Kapampangan obakit akyát climb Kapampangan ukyát/mukyat at and Kapampangan at bundók mountain Kapampangan bunduk huwág don't Pangasinan ag aso dog Luzon languages aso tayo we (inc.) Luzon languages

Austronesian comparison chart

Below is a chart of Tagalog and sixteen other Austronesian languages comparing thirteen words; the first thirteen languages are spoken in the Philippines and the other four are spoken in Indonesia, Hawai'i, and Madagascar.

English one two three four person house dog coconut day new we (inc.) what fire Tagalog isa dalawa tatlo apat tao bahay aso niyog araw bago tayo ano apoy Bicolsaro duwa tulo apat tawo harong ayam niyog aldaw ba-go kita ano kalayo Cebuanousa duha tulo upat tawo balay iro lubi adlaw bag-o kita unsa kalayo Warayusa duha tulo upat tawo balay ayam lubi adlaw bag-o kita ano kalayo Tausughambuuk duwa tu upat tau bay iru' niyug adlaw ba-gu kitaniyu unu kayu Kinaray-asara darwa tatlo apat taho balay ayam niyog adlaw bag-o kita, taten ano kalayo Kapampanganmetung adwa atlu apat tau bale asu ngungut aldo bayu ikatamu nanu api Pangasinansakey duara talora apatira too abong aso niyog agew balo sikatayo anto apoy Ilokanomaysa dua tallo uppat tao balay aso niog aldaw baro datayo ania apoy Ivatanasa dadowa tatdo apat tao vahay chito niyoy araw va-yo yaten ango apoy Ibanagtadday dua tallu appa' tolay balay kitu niuk aggaw bagu sittam anni afi Gaddang antet addwa tallo appat tolay balay atu ayog aw bawu ikkanetem sanenay afuy Tbolisotu lewu tlu fat tau gunu ohu lefo kdaw lomi tekuy tedu ofih Indonesiansatu dua tiga empat orang rumah/balai anjing kelapa/nyiur hari baru kita apa/anu api Javanesesiji loro telu papat wong omah/bale asu opo/anu api Hawaiiankahi lua kolu hā kanaka hale 'īlio niu ao hou kākou aha ahi Malagasyisa roa telo efatra olona trano alika voanio andro vaovao isika inona afo

Contribution to other languages

Tagalog itself has contributed a few words into English.

boondocks: meaning "rural" or "back country," was imported by American soldiers stationed in the Philippines as a mispronounced version of the Tagalog bundok, which means "mountain."
cogon: a type of grass, used for thatching. This word came from the Tagalog word kugon (a species of tall grass).
ylang-ylang: a type of flower known for its fragrance.
Abaca: a type of hemp fiber made from a plant in the banana family, from abaká.
Manila hemp: a light brown cardboard material used for folders and paper usually made from abaca hemp.
Capiz: also known as window oyster, is used to make windows.

Yo-yo is reportedly a Tagalog word, however no such word exists in Tagalog.

Tagalog has contributed several words to Philippine Spanish, like barangay (from balañgay meaning barrio), the abacá, cogon, palay, etc.

Religious literature

Religious Literature remains to be one of the most dynamic contributors to Tagalog literature. In 1970, the Philippine Bible Society translated the Bible into Tagalog, the first translation to any of the Philippine languages. Even before the Second Vatican Council, devotional materials in Tagalog had been circulating. At present, there are two circulating Tagalog translations of the Holy Bible—the Magandang Balita Biblia (a parallel translation of the Good News Bible), which is the ecumenical version and the Ang Biblia, which is a more Protestant version.

When the Second Vatican Council, (specifically the Sacrosanctum Concilium) permitted the universal prayers to be translated into vernacular languages, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines was one of the first to translate the Roman Missal into Tagalog. In fact, the Roman Missal in Tagalog was published as early as 1982, while not published in English until 1985.

Tagalog is quite a stable language, and very few revisions have been made to Catholic Bible translations. Also, as Protestantism in the Philippines is relatively young, liturgical prayers tend to be more ecumenical.

Examples

The Lord's Prayer (Ama Namin)

Ama Namin, sumasalangit ka. Sambahin ang ngalan mo. Mapasaamin ang kaharian mo, Sundin ang loob mo dito sa lupa para nang sa langit. Bigyan mo kami ngayon ng aming kakanin sa araw-araw, At patawarin mo kami sa aming mga sala, Para nang pagpapatawad namin sa nagkakasala sa amin At huwag mo kaming ipahintulot sa tukso, At iadya mo kami sa lahat ng masama. Amen.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Ang lahat ng tao'y isinilang na malaya at pantay-pantay sa karangalan at mga karapatan. Sila'y pinagkalooban ng katwiran at budhi at dapat magpalagayan ang isa't isa sa diwa ng pagkakapatiran.

(Every person is born free and equal with honor and rights. They are given reason and conscience and they must always trust each other for the spirit of brotherhood.)

Numbers

Cardinal Ordinal 1 isá una / ika-isa 2 dalawá pangalawá / ika'lawa 3 tatló pangatló / ika'tlo 4 apat pang-apat / ika-apat 5 limá panlimá / ika-lima 6 anim pang-anim / ika-anim 7 pitó pampitó / ika-pito 8 waló pangwaló / ika-walo 9 siyám pansiyám / ika-siyam 10 sampû pansampû / ika-sampu 11 labíng-isá / onse (Spanish numbers are commonly used above 10) panlabíng-isá / pang-onse / ika-labing-isa 12 labingdalawá / dose panlabindalawá / pandose / ika-labing-dalawa 20 dalawampu pambente / ika-dalawang-pu 100 (i)sán(g)daán / syento pang-isán(g)daán / pansyento / ika-isang-daan 200 dalawáng daán / dos syentos 400 apat-na-raán / kwatro syentos 600 anim-na-raán / saís syentos 1,000 isáng libo 2,000 dalawáng libo / dos mil 10,000 sanlaksa / dyes mil 100,000 sangyuta / syento mil 1,000,000 isáng milyón / sang-angaw 2,000,000 dalawáng milyón / dalawang angaw 100,000,000 isang bahala

Common phrases

Filipino: Pilipino [ˌpiːliˈpiːno]
English: Ingglés [ʔɪŋˈglɛs]
Tagalog: Tagalog [tɐˈgaːlog]
What is your name?: Anó ang pangalan ninyo? (plural) Anó ang pangalan mo(singular) [ɐˈno aŋ pɐˈŋaːlan nɪnˈjo]
How are you?: kumustá [kʊmʊsˈta]
Good morning!: Magandáng umaga! [mɐgɐnˈdaŋ uˈmaːga]
Good afternoon! (from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.): Magandáng tanghali! [mɐgɐnˈdaŋ taŋˈhaːlε]
Good afternoon! (from 1 p.m. to dusk): Magandáng hapon! [mɐgɐnˈdaŋ ˈhaːpon]
Good evening!: Magandáng gabí! [mɐgɐnˈdaŋ gɐˈbε]
Good-bye: paalam [pɐˈʔaːlam] (literal - "with your blessing")
Please: Depending on the nature of the verb, either pakí- [pɐˈki] or makí- [mɐˈki] is attached as a prefix to a verb. ngâ [ŋaʔ] is optionally added after the verb to increase politeness.
Thank you: salamat [sɐˈlaːmat]
That one: iyan [ʔiˈjan]
How much?: magkano? [mɐgˈkaːno]
Yes: oo [ˈoːʔo]
No: hindî [hɪnˈdɛʔ]
Sorry: pasensya pô (literally - "patience") or sorry/sori [pɐˈsɛːnʃa poʔ] patawad po [pɐtaːwad poʔ] (literally - "forgiveness")
Because: kasí [kɐˈsɛ]
Hurry!: Dalí! [dɐˈli], Bilís! [bɪˈlis]
Again: mulí [muˈli] , ulít [uˈlɛt]
I don't understand: Hindî ko maintindihan [hɪnˈdiː ko mɐʔɪnˌtɪndiˈhan]
Where's the bathroom?: Nasaán ang banyo? [ˌnaːsɐˈʔan ʔaŋ ˈbaːnjo]
Generic toast: Mabuhay! [mɐˈbuːhaɪ] [literally - "long live"]
Do you speak English? Marunong ka bang magsalitâ ng Ingglés? [mɐˈɾuːnʊŋ ka baŋ mɐgsaliˈtaː naŋ ʔɪŋˈglɛs]
It is fun to live. Masaya ang mabuhay! [mɐˈsa'ya ʔaŋ mɐ'buːhaɪ]