Introduction to Tagalog
June 23, 2008Aligning with the purpose of this blog, that is to ensure the preservation of the Tagalog language in it’s purest state through the people speaking it, I am going to give this yet another informative post about the Tagalog language. I’ll clarify things further on future posts.
Verbs
For Anglophones (English-speaking peoples), I am going to be frank that those of you who do not really have a linguistics background or have never ever studied any foreign language will find Tagalog and other Philippine-languages very hard to learn. One of the most complex things in Tagalog are its verbs, the terror of Tagalog grammar. Why? This is because Tagalog verbs are very flexible, although it only has three tenses. Tagalog verbs can be conjugated to over 60 forms. However, speakers of other Central Philippine languages such as Cebuano, Hiligaynon and Waray will find Tagalog very easy to learn. This is because Tagalog also belongs to the same branch of languages, the Central Philippine languages, and thus share mostly the same grammar and syntax with other languages of that family.
Syntax
Like its verbs, Tagalog sentences have a very flexible syntax (word order). And again, although I would say quite less, Anglophones might find this quite difficult. English sentences follow the Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) syntax. I would give a simple example “John loves Jenny.” where “John” is the subject, “loves” is the verb, and “Jenny” is the object of the verb. In Tagalog sentences, it can be SVO, VOS and a lot more. Tagalophones (Tagalog-speaking people) distinguish subject and the object through markers within the sentence.
Pronunciation
Tagalog pronunciation is pretty simple and easy, and there are only a few things to pronounce unlike the diversity of the English pronunciation. In this part of the language, Italophones (Italian-speaking people) and Hispanophones (Spanish-speaking people) will find Tagalog pronunciation very easy and familiar.
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