Tagalog phonology

Tagalog phonology

This article is about the phonology of the Tagalog language. It deals with current phonology and phonetics as well as with historical developments thereof, including variants.

Tagalog has allophones, so it is important here to distinguish phonemes (written in slashes / /) and corresponding allophones (written in brackets [ ] ).

Consonants

tress

Stress is phonemic in Tagalog. Primary stress occurs on either the last or the next-to-the-last (penultimate) syllable of a word. Vowel lengthening accompanies primary or secondary stress except when stress occurs at the end of a word. Stress on words is very important, they differentiate words with the same spelling, but with different meanings, e.g. "tayô" (to stand) and "táyo" (us; we).

References

ee also

* Tagalog language
* List of phonetics topics
* Tagalog orthography


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