Tagalog-English/English-Tagalog Standard Dictionary

by Carl Rubino, Maria Gracia Tan Llenado

Overview

A comprehensive guide to Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines— now revised and updated!

Tagalog, also called Pilipino, is a national language of the Philippines. It is spoken by over 35 million people worldwide.

Expanded and completely updated, this best-selling reference is designed for students of Tagalog and native Tagalog speakers in need of a bilingual dictionary.  

• 20,000 entries
• Entries include idiomatic expressions, slang, loan words and derivations
• Detailed outline of Tagalog grammar
• Appendices include useful vocabulary, menu terms and cultural references

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780781809603
Publisher:	Hippocrene Books, Inc.
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	424
Sales rank:	401,937
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Carl Rubino initiated the Philippine language program at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he taught both Tagalog and Ilocano. With a background in typology, he has lectured on Philippine linguistics on four continents. He currently lives in Washington D.C. where he is a computational linguist specializing in natural language processing and machine translation.