A comprehensive guide to Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines-- now revised and updated!
Tagalog, also called Pilipino, is a national language of thePhilippines. It is spoken by over 35 million people worldwide.
Expanded andcompletely updated, this best-selling reference is designed for students ofTagalog and native Tagalog speakers in need of a bilingual dictionary.
20,000 entries Entries include idiomatic expressions, slang, loan words
and derivations Detailed outline of Tagalog grammar Appendices include useful vocabulary, menu terms and
cultural references
By:
Carl Rubino,
Maria Gracia Tan Llenado
Imprint: Hippocrene
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Second revised and expanded ed
Dimensions:
Height: 215mm,
Width: 139mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780781809603
ISBN 10: 0781809606
Pages: 462
Publication Date: 01 November 2002
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Dr. Carl Rubino initiated the Philippine programme at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he taught both Tagalog and Ilocano. With a background in typology, he has lectured on Philippine linguistics on four continents. He currently lives in Washington D.C. where he is a computational linguist specialising in natural language processing and machine translation.