Filipino alphabet

The Filipino alphabet, the Philippines officially in Tagalog as Makabagong alpabetong Filipino and in English as Modern Filipino alphabet (both called modern Filipino alphabet) called, consists of 19 letters of the standard Latin alphabet and in addition the adopted from the Baybayin former letters and today digraphs ng. Added to this are the letters taken from the Spanish Ñ and the digraph ll, which, however, nowadays exist only nominally and are not actively used.

The Filipino alphabet, also known as Abakada ( literally Aa, Be, Ce, De ), was designed by Lope K. Santos, a Philippine lawyer and politician. This is therefore also referred to as the "Father of Philippine National Language and Grammar". The creation of a new Philippine writing system was part of a program to create a based on Tagalog official and national language, a Wikang Pambansa Batay sa Tagalog or Tagalog -Based National Language. It was founded in 1900 under the approval of the American colonial government under U.S. President William McKinley by the Philippine President Manuel Quezon under the Tagalog name Surian ng Wikang Pambansa and the English name National Language Institute, the National Language Institute of the Philippines to life.

Collation

The Abakada is arranged similarly to the German alphabet. The letters in the top row of the table below refer to the characters used, while seen in the bottom row syllables suggest the correct pronunciation. The letters used are all based on those used in the Baybayin characters, with the exception of R, which is used only in the Bikolano variant of the Baybayin.

The term Filipino is the only word of the official signature of the Philippines, which is written with the letter F. Because of the mixing of the Filipino with other languages ​​, primarily the increasingly strong English, but also Spanish and Hokkien, and the rest of Latin letters C, F, J, Q, V, X, Z are used in informal written documents.