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Old Tagalog

Old Tagalog proper noun: the unattested early stage of the Tagalog language, spoken and sparsely written in the Baybayin script before Spanish contact, that derived from Central Philippine languages and already containing loanwords from Old Malay, Classical Sanskrit, Classical Arabic, Middle Tamil, Classical Persian, Old Javanese, and possibly Medieval Southern Min Chinese and/or Late Middle Chinese, later evolving into Classical Tagalog.

Proper noun

Old Tagalog

  1. The unattested early stage of the Tagalog language, spoken and sparsely written in the Baybayin script before Spanish contact, that derived from Central Philippine languages and already containing loanwords from Old Malay, Classical Sanskrit, Classical Arabic, Middle Tamil, Classical Persian, Old Javanese, and possibly Medieval Southern Min Chinese and/or Late Middle Chinese, later evolving into Classical Tagalog.

Questions about Old Tagalog

What does Old Tagalog mean?
Old Tagalog means the unattested early stage of the Tagalog language, spoken and sparsely written in the Baybayin script before Spanish contact, that derived from Central Philippine languages and already containing loanwords from Old Malay, Classical Sanskrit, Classical Arabic, Middle Tamil, Classical Persian, Old Javanese, and possibly Medieval Southern Min Chinese and/or Late Middle Chinese, later evolving into Classical Tagalog.
What part of speech is Old Tagalog?
Old Tagalog is a proper noun.

Words near Old Tagalog in the dictionary

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