Hard copies are currently unavailable for purchase online. Hard copies available in limited quantities at: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino and UST Publishing House, Manila. 'Phonology: The Sound of Language' is a chapter in The Tagalog Region: Lexicon of the Languages & Dialects (2009) by Fe Aldave Yap.

This alphabet was instituted in 1987 during the Aquino presidency. The current Filipino alphabet includes 8 letters from the Spanish alphabet: c, f, j, ñ, q, v, x, z. Abakada remained the national language's alphabet from 1940 to 1976. The result was 20 letters (5 vowels and 15 consonants). Santos developed The Grammar of the National Language (Ang Balarila ng Wikang Pambansa), which contained the alphabet for the national language abakada, named after its first three letters, representing the sounds in the Tagalog language. Spanish missionaries introduced the Latin alphabet and the Spanish language. During the Philippine Commonwealth, the abecedario became abakada with 32 letters.

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Abakada alphabet