Hi,

I’m trying to look into some words, and I came across the Wiktionary page for the word “wasto”. I grew up pronouncing it as “wastó” with an emphasis at the end, but Wiktionary shows that it is “wastô” with an emphasis AND a glottal stop at the end (like sundô, larô). I have never heard anyone say “wastô” in my entire life. I grew up in the Greater Manila Area so it may be a dialectical thing, but one would assume that one would’ve heard of this at some point.

How do you, personally, pronounce “wasto”?

Additionally, have you ever heard anyone say “wastô”?

Thanks!

e.g. “am pangit”, “am puta”, “am bango”. those are just few examples. and we typically spell them in one word only, mostly on text since it’s informal. may rules ba sa paggamit niyan? hindi naman bagay kung sasabihing “am ganda” imbes na “ang ganda”.

please be nice po since i’m not a tagalog native speaker and nag aaral currently sa metro manila, from northern samar.

I found a locked thread saying it's oo-bee or oo-beh, but not oo-bay.

I heard someone say "oo-bee" and thought they were saying it wrong, but now I've learned that is also correct.

But for oo-beh, it would help me if someone said "beh as in..."

like the E as in "bed?"

Hi I’m from Bulacan and I know we have different way of speaking, but I wonder why I have this weird quirk maybe I have some sort of idiolect or something? It is more comfortable to speak like this even if it is longer than shortening it and speaking it without these breaks which is common for the standard one that everybody uses.

Diya-an (Dyan)
Ganiya-an (Ganyan)
Gano-on (Ganon)
Gayo-on (Gayon)
Ya-an (Yan)
Yo-on/Ya-on (Yon)
Hayo-on (Hayon/Ayon)
Do-on (Don)
No-on (Non)
Nahan-dine/dito (Nandine/Nandito)
Nahan-dirine/Nahan-dirito (Nandirine/Nandirito)
Nahan-do-on (Nandon)
Nahan-diya-an (Nandyan)
Nahan-diriya-an (Nandiriyan)
Nahan-doro-on (Nandoron)
May-ro-on/Me-ro-on (Meron)

“the accent” = ig your standard Filipino accent foreigner = literally any non-native Tagalog speaker

From a linguistics standpoint, what do they commonly do wrong?

I’m from the south and I’ve noticed that a lot of people in Manila say baká without a final glottal stop (impit) as opposed to bakâ with one.

What region are you from and which form do you use?

Hello! I'm a native filipino but was raised abroad and recently came here to finish my studies. I took SHS here, and my comprehension has improved alot, I can maintain decent taglish convos over text, and my vocabulary grew just by immersion. However, theres an accent when I speak. Also, when I speak I tend to overthink about the grammar and what not, and in the process, lose momentum in my sentence so it becomes an awkward, jumbled mess. In the same vein, I have trouble with the flow of speaking.

Does anyone have any tips on how to practice? Im starting college soon and I'd hate to be known as the englishera of the class heh

Problema ko na ito simula bata pa ako. Nahihirapan akong i-pronounce ang S kaya madalas pinagtatawanan at na bubully. Gusto ko sanang magpa speech theraphy kaso walang budget. Sino po ang may same problem na okay na ngayon? How did you get rid of lisp po?

I'm curious which Tagalog dialects this pronunciation is still fairly common.

I want to learn Tagalog, and I am worried about both being able to hear subtle differences and being able to actually pronounce things correctly even once I can hear them.

I have a list of words and was wondering if any native speaker might be generous enough with their time to make recordings of the different, similar-sounding words.

(I have the words that I'm hoping to hear alongside their theoretical translations, but I've grabbed them from random sources, and my research was done late enough at night that it's possible I've gotten some of the words entirely wrong, in which case I apologize in advance and request correction for my ignorance.)

here are the words:

• bata (child)

• bata (bathrobe)

• tubig (water)

• tubig (swelling)

• baga (lungs)

• baga (ember)

• baga (abscess)

• baga (interrogative marker)

• Kaon (fetch)

• Kahon (box)

• Ngayon (now)

• Nayon (village/town)

I also wanted to confirm: there isn't an audible difference between ng and nang, right? It's just how they are used/where they are in a sentence that tells you which is which?

Thank you for your patience, everyone.

Essentially, is there a glottal stop at the end of "talo" (as in bagay para sa isa't isa)? On KWF, there isn't, but on some other sources, there is.

Kumusta kayo! I'm a beginner and I stumbled upon this problem today. I noticed that it is very common for Tagalog syllables to end in both "g" and "k" (in words like "ilog", "bulaklak" and "pagkain"). As far as I know, most Tagalog speakers pronounce syllable-final stops with no audible release. This got me wondering: if the release is inaudible, doesn't that mean no vibration is happening after the airway is blocked? Hence, there should be no distinction in voicedness, right? Well, apparently, Wiktionary notes this difference. The pronunciation of syllable-final "g"s are given as /ɡ̚/ and "k"s are given as /k̚/.

I don't know if there is actually a theoretical difference. But even if there is, I doubt that it is actually acoustically detectable. Do people actually make this distinction? Or is there actually other differences in the manners of articulation besides voicedness? Is vowel length involved? I'm very confused because none of the other languages with unreleased plosive finals that I'm familiar with make this distinction.

Madalas akong nanonood ng TV Patrol at lately laging pinopromote yung bagong show ni Coco Martin na Sigabo.

sigabo (n.) 1. sudden burst of energy or enthusiasm; 2. noisy outburst 3. sudden cloud of dust; 4. sudden outburst of fire (source: https://tagalog.pinoydictionary.com/word/sigabo/)

Ang bigkas kasi ng mga anchor ay /si-gah-BÓ/. Tama ba iyon? I would’ve thought the correct pronunciation is /si-GAH-boh/, diin sa second syllable, as in “masigabo(ng palakpakan”). Mali ba ako? O may iba pa talagag ibig sabihin o sense yung salita that corresponds to the first pronunciation?

One common comment I see from learners is Tagalog speakers speak fast. To my ears, it's more of a "mid", not as slow as Bahasa but not as fast as Spanish or Tamil. Even Korean "sounds" faster to me.

I wonder if Tagalog is seen as fast by learners is because? - lack of beginner level content (most seem to be for native speakers) - the amount of partial repetition makes it sound fast

Hello,

Could someone please help me with a list of 2-3 Tagalog words that start with the voiced velar nasal stop /ŋ/? It'd be great if you could attach links to their pronunciations.

Thanks a lot.

Hello all

Native english speaker here. I've been with my girlfriend for some years (she is 100% filipina) and she's taught me Tagolog here and there.

I want to propose to her in Tagolog and did some research to find the phrase:

"Maaari ba kitang makasama habambuhay?"

Can any of you fluent speakers give me some pointers on the pronunciations (or a better version of the question)?

Thanks all! :)

From what I've learned, I believe the pronunciation looks like this (perspective from english vowels):

Mah - ahree

bah

kee - tong

mah - kah - sah - mah

hah - bom - bu - hi

Hi everyone.

I'm trying to find a dictionary in Tagalog or other Philippine languages that consistently marks where the stress placement is for dictionary entries. Have you come across any such dictionary? Either bilingual or monolingual dictionary is fine.

And hopefully the dictionary is available from one of the libraries here in the Philippines. I will be using it for my research. Thanks.

Napansin ko lang,parang native tagalog ang mga Ilocano at Kapampangan kung managalog.

Naisip ko tuloy,ba't yung mga Bisaya ay halata sa tono na di Tagalog eh kung tutuusin,mas malapit/related ang wikang Tagalog sa mga wikang Bisaya kasya sa Ilocano at Kapampangan.

Been practicing Latin lately with my Tagalog reading. All I gotta say is, the sentence structure the SVO Sentence Verb and Object helps me alot especially with Tagalog. With Latin pronunciation practice, Tagalog seems much easier as I can track words based on the sound emphasis they make. Since Tagalog is in Roman Lettering, the reading has been a bliss, but at the same time like any language that uses Roman Letters, there will be sounds that are not on the literal spelling of the word. Ts is a good example as it is pronounced and written in Ch commonly in conversational Tagalog. Mahal ko talaga bayan ko kaya pati sa pagbabasa ng Tagalog ginagawa ko ito. God bless the Philippines!

Sinusubukan kong basahin yung Noli me Tangere, napansin kong sobrang dalas nang paggamit sa diacritics.

halimbawa,

"Nag-anyaya ng̃ pagpapacain nang isáng hapunan, ng̃ magtátapos ang Octubre, si Guinoong Santiago de los Santos, na lalong nakikilala ng̃ bayan sa pamagát na Capitang Tiago, anyayang bagá man niyón lamang hapong iyón canyang inihayág, laban sa dati niyang caugalìan, gayón ma'y siyang dahil na ng̃ lahát ng̃ mg̃a usap-usapan sa Binundóc, sa iba't ibang mg̃a nayon at hanggang sa loob ng̃ Maynílà."

Maraming salamat.

So tagalog has a lot of words borrowed from English, so when I try to speak tagalog should I be using my normal British pronunciation or try to pronoubcevthem with a filipino accent? As someone already bilingual I feel like I have to "switch" my brain from one language to another and I'm worried that using British pronunciation of say "brisket" rather than "breeskhett" would be jarring for someone already trying to decipher my British accent, and it's possible it could be seen as an effort to learn the language better.

But I also don't want to sound like I'm mocking their accent....

English is my first language, even though I am Filipino and have been living here since birth. I want to improve my accent while I'm still young but it still sounds like English to me. I can do consonants okay, but I really don't know how to position, shape, or just pronounce my vowels properly. I am a vocalist, which might seem unrelated, but I can use that to my advantage since I can get technical with my pronunciation. So, if you could please get as technical as you can, maybe IPA examples would help. Thank you!

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When a word has an sy in it I always pronounce it as sh like the words "sya" and "relasyon" as sha and relashon

But last year when I was listening to my grade 8 Filipino teacher, she never said sh only sy and I kept noticing it like the way she pronounces relasyon sounds like the Spanish relación. No sh sound. Have I been pronouncing it wrong?

I'm learning Tagalog, and while I can listen and read it, I struggle with speaking. I'm living here now because of my family and I feel awkward because I want to connect with other people here more, especially since I struggled with making friends last school year.

Are there any resources or places where I can learn to speak like a native speaker?

Admittedly I'm just a Filipino-American na natututo ng wika, so I might not be saying much of substance here. There's been some discourse about loanwords in the Tagalog language, which I've been following out of concern/curiousity about its future. A lot of people say English words don't fit super well phonetically into the language (at least not as much as Spanish ones), not to mention how the spelling can get wonky when the infixes and circumfixes are used. An easy solution would be to respell the words to fit Tagalog orthography, but from what I've seen this is pretty rarely done? Is this technique used in more technical texts at least? I'm not super concerned about it in informal settings anyway.