Classical Tagalog
English
Proper noun
Classical Tagalog
- The older language of Tagalog spoken and written in the Philippines from about 1565 C.E. to 1897 C.E., before soon developing into Modern Tagalog (Filipino) by the time of the Philippine Revolution. It developed from Old Tagalog after Christianization in the Spanish colonial period, with heavy influence from Spanish(Early Modern Spanish and Modern Spanish), Chinese(especially Hokkien), and Japanese. This was also when it first started being written in the Latin script.
- 2013, Potet, Jean-Paul G., Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, pages 82–83:
- Generally they are no longer productive, and cannot be used for derivation either in Classical Tagalog or Classical Arabic.
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Synonyms
- Middle Tagalog
Coordinate terms
- Proto-Austronesian
- Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Proto-Philippine
- Old Tagalog (Ancient Tagalog)
- Modern Tagalog (Filipino)
Translations
older language of Tagalog
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Further reading
- Doctrina Christiana
- Ibong Adarna
- Florante at Laura
- Noli Me Tangere
- El Filibusterismo