<<< Home page

Tagalog

Phylum: Austronesian

Genus: Philippine

Lat/lon: 14.6, 121.0

ISO code: tgl

Consonants

Basic short series

bilabiallabio-velarlabio-dentaldentalalveolarpostalveolarpalatalvelar
stopp, bt̪, d̪g
tapɾ
fricativef, vsʃ
affricatetstʃ, dʒkx
nasalmɲŋ
approximantwj
lateral approximantl

Vowels

Basic short series

frontcentralback
closeiu
close-mido
open-midɛ
open

Licit syllabic templates

(C)(C)V(C)

Source: Bloomfield, Leonard. 1917. Tagalog texts with grammatical analysis, part 1. University of Illinois.

Comments: /tʃ/, /dʒ/, /ts/, /ʃ/, /ɲ/, /ɛ/, /o/ are normally not found in native vocabulary.

Contributed by: André Nikulin (andre.n.guzman@gmail.com)