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Puto and ube and (not pictured) filipino spaghetti

Masarap salamat po lola and kaibigan mo

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Found a good FB page that posts these phrases daily :-)

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I need more Tagalog practice sources, sigh

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Lumpia ADOBO 💜

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I found this randomly. I will be checking this channel out for practice and entertainment!

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Tagalog particles in Philippine English: The cases of 'ba', 'na', ''no', and 'pa'

This paper reports on corpus-based case analyses of 'ba', 'na', and 'pa' when these enclitic particles are inserted

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Learning voice is essential to learning Tagalog, ive learned

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Im gonna say this nonstop lol

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I finally understand the symmetrical voice system of Tagalog thanks to the help of some conlangers and linguistics nerds in a fandom server im in! Im so happy i can more confidently learn tagalog to finally have conversations with my coworkers and my lola :-)

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This video (EP30 from Lets Go Tagalog) and this table is rlly solidifying things for me.

Its seems less 'complicated' (which has a discouraging, negative connotation) and just incredibly, highly organized to me.

To basically not have a default voice but then to make it via an array of verb categories and agglutaniting features or conjugations and then to encode whether the subject or object in the sentence is the focus (but not necessarily the topic)... thats so genious. Esp since you dont have to change the word order to do this like in English.

I think i was so hung up about the verbs bc i didnt understand what 'voice' is in language. But now i better understand that its when a verb encodes information about how the subject and object relate to its conveyed action. English has a default active voice and employs more morphosyntactic complexity to use the passive voice, particularly switching up word order and introducing some words.

But from my understanding now, Tagalog doesnt need to change the word order to convey voice and uses a very organized category voice system to very precisely encode

What or who is the subject

What or who is the agent (different!)

If the subject or object are the focus of the sentence

Themantic role

Definite and indefiniteness

along with the use of enclitic particles and different categories of corresponding pronouns to more precisely assign those themantic roles. And then ofc aspect is indicated too (tho i heard tense isnt indicated on the verb).

Idk im just feeling so good rn that I'm finally understanding this system. It feels wayyy less redundant and 'complicated' and just really precise and has a role for everything.

Im feeling confident that i can really speak to lola soon, and my coworkers! 🤩🤩

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I finally understand the symmetrical voice system of Tagalog thanks to the help of some conlangers and linguistics nerds in a fandom server im in! Im so happy i can more confidently learn tagalog to finally have conversations with my coworkers and my lola :-)

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Austronesian alignment

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August is Buwan ng Wika (Filipino Language Month)

In Tagalog, kain (ka-een) means (to) eat.

Seems like a simple word, but this is a word that defines so much of what being a Filipino is like. Our lives basically revolve around food, and eating, and mealtimes, and a lot of new friendships start with a simple phrase: "Kain tayo!" (Let's eat!") You can see this in the bajillion ways we conjugate the word:

This art piece is "Hainan"* by Mark Justiniani, inspired by Ateneo de Manila professor Roberto Galang's Facebook post for Buwan ng Wika (Filipino Language Month) below: *haínan: the presentation of food on the table pagkain: food (noun)

[A clarification: The official Filipino language is a standardized version of Tagalog, which is the main language spoken in Metropolitan Manila and its environs--specifically the Southern Tagalog region of Luzon, the country's largest island. But Tagalog is only one of the MANY LANGUAGES (not dialects!) spoken in the Philippines; there is also Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bikol, Waray, Tausug, Maranao, and Maguindanao among others. I'm fairly conversant in (Waray Sorsoganon) Bikol and can understand but not really speak Waray. Also, while Spanish is not an official language of the Philippines (because racism, of sorts), English IS (because white man's burden, thank you American colonizers I guess?)] Anyway. Here's Professor Felipe de Leon explaining how the complexity of Filipino is an indication of the close community relationships Filipinos have with each other (via food!)

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Maligayang Buwan ng Wika!

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