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2 days ago · In 1613, the Franciscan priest Pedro de San Buenaventura published the first Tagalog dictionary, his Vocabulario de la lengua tagala in Pila, Laguna. The first substantial dictionary of the Tagalog language was written by the Czech Jesuit missionary Pablo Clain in the beginning of the 18th century.
3 days ago · Florante at Laura is a Philippine literature classic written in the nineteenth century by Francisco Baltazar (1788-1862), better known by his pen name Balagtas. It is a romance in Tagalog verse.
2 days ago · Baybáyin is the script that Tagalog speakers used for writing before the Spaniards arrived. It is a system of writing with borrowings from Sanskrit. Isa sa sinauna’t katutubong paraan ng pagsusulat sa bansa. One of the country’s ancient and native methods of writing.
5 days ago · Filipino is inclusive of the contributions of languages other than Tagalog. For instance, it is quite all right to say diksyonaryo (from the Spanish diccionario) in Filipino, whereas a Tagalog purist (or someone stuck in the “Pilipino” era) might insist on a native Tagalog word like talahuluganan.
3 days ago · George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the fictionalized but autobiographical Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
3 days ago · The earliest printed book in a Philippine language, featuring both Tagalog in baybayin and transliterated into the Latin script, is the 1593 Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Española y Tagala. The Tagalog text was based mainly on a manuscript written by Fr. Juan de Placencia .
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