Word.ws English Dictionary

Classical Tagalog

Classical Tagalog proper noun: the pre-modern stage of the Tagalog language written primarily in the Latin script during the Spanish colonial period heavily influenced by Spanish, Hokkien Chinese (Early Manila Hokkien), and Japanese elements, which later developed into Modern Tagalog, also known as Filipino, following linguistic reforms in the early 20th century.

Proper noun

Classical Tagalog

  1. The pre-modern stage of the Tagalog language written primarily in the Latin script during the Spanish colonial period heavily influenced by Spanish, Hokkien Chinese (Early Manila Hokkien), and Japanese elements, which later developed into Modern Tagalog, also known as Filipino, following linguistic reforms in the early 20th century.
    • Generally they are no longer productive, and cannot be used for derivation either in Classical Tagalog or Classical Arabic.2013, Jean-Paul G. Potet, Arabic and Persian Loanwords in Tagalog, Lulu Press, →ISBN, pages 82–83

Questions about Classical Tagalog

What does Classical Tagalog mean?
Classical Tagalog means the pre-modern stage of the Tagalog language written primarily in the Latin script during the Spanish colonial period heavily influenced by Spanish, Hokkien Chinese (Early Manila Hokkien), and Japanese elements, which later developed into Modern Tagalog, also known as Filipino, following linguistic reforms in the early 20th century.
What part of speech is Classical Tagalog?
Classical Tagalog is a proper noun.

Words near Classical Tagalog in the dictionary

  1. classical planet
  2. classical planets
  3. Classical Sanskrit
  4. classical studies
  5. Classical Syriac
  6. Classical Tagalog
  7. classical thermodynamics
  8. Classical Tibetan
  9. Classical Tupi
  10. classical unemployment
  11. classical unities

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Classical Tagalog (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Classical Tagalog.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/classical_tagalog. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.