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Rafiqa Roslan
Filipino alphabets
Did Filipino has alphabets? If so, what's it?
May 5, 2014 10:54 AM
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The Philippine alphabet had been altered so many times to maintain adaptability to changing conditions. The recent most alteration was of the 1987 Philippine Constitution which stated that the Filipino alphabet must be consisted of the 26 ISO Basic Latin Alphabet + Spanish "Ñ" + Austronesian diagraph "NG". The order goes like this:
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
Now, scripts are a whole lot different issue.
May 9, 2014
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There have been several alphabets used to write various languages of the Philippines in pre-colonial times. Like other South-East Asian alphabets (or "abugidas" to be more precise), they were derived from the Brahmic scripts of India. The Buhid, Baybayin and Hanunó'o scripts are examples. I'm not sure if any of them are still used.
May 12, 2014
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Please go to this site to see and hear the Filipino alphabets:
http://tagaloglang.com/Basic-Tagalog/How-to-Say-in-Tagalog/abakada-tagalog-alphabet.html
May 5, 2014
Yes, We Have. We Call it ABAKADA or the combination of the first four letters in our alphabet.
A - as in App
Ba - as in BAt
Ka - like the sound in CUt
Da - the sound of da in DArk or DArt
E - as in Egg
Ga - as in GAttling
Ha - as in HAs
I - as in Inner
La - as in LAst
Ma - as in MAp
Na - as in NAp
Nga - like the sound of ng in endiNG
O - as in Opposite
Pa - as in PAnt
Ra - as in RAt
Sa - as in SAt
Ta - as in TArt
U - same sound in scOOp
Wa - as in WAter
Ya - as in YArd
As you can see, the consonant letters have the vowels with them when describe as alphabets, to make it sound tagalog, but it is not necessarily included when used in words.
As you can see, the Filipino or Tagalog Alphabets are similar to western alphabets, because it was influenced by it long ago when the Philippines were still under the spanish colony.
May 7, 2014
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Rafiqa Roslan
Language Skills
English, Filipino (Tagalog), Indonesian, Japanese, Malay, Russian, Spanish
Learning Language
English, Filipino (Tagalog), Japanese, Russian, Spanish
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