TAGALOG

SLANG
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Training Objective:

DESCRIBE the Tagalog Slang

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Enabling Objective:

 DEFINE Tagalog Slang

 IDENTIFY the sources of Tagalog Slang
 EXPLAIN the methods of re-shaping a word into
slang
REFERENCES:

ARTICLE BY WILLIE J. UY ENTITLED THE

NEW FILIPINO SLANG: UNDERSTANDING
TAGLISH WHEN IN THE PHILIPPINES

HTTP://WWW.SEASITE.NIU.EDU/TAGALOG/H
OWSLANGWORDS.HTM
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is a word derived from a Tagalog word or

from borrowing other languages, by
giving new meanings to pre-existing
word , by coining or creating original
forms, or by using numbers as a kind of
“in-group” codes
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1. LOAN WORDS

- borrowing from different languages

- significant changing of meaning or grammar

- renders these words rather unintelligible to

native speakers of the language from where
the word was borrowed
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1. LOAN WORDS

- Major sources of Tagalog Slang

a. English e. Visayan

b. Spanish f. Ilokano

c. Japanese g. Kapampangan

d. Chinese
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1. LOAN WORDS

- Examples:

a. Toxic - loaded with work

b. De Kahon – bookish

c. Tong - bribery ; illegal collections

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2. Attribution of new meaning to Tagalog

words

- derived from the large collection of

inherited vocabulary, but take on a major
change in semantics
NEW MEANING OF TAGALOG WORDS

ASWANG
 Slang for MOTHER –IN
LAW
NEW MEANING OF TAGALOG WORDS

BAWANG
NEW MEANING OF TAGALOG WORDS

LUTO
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3. Coinage

- involves the creation of new words and are

hardly recognizable even though they may be
based at times on other words
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3. Coinage
 Examples:
a. harurot - fast, speeding
b. palpak - failure or failed attempt
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4. Numbers
 based on the use of numbers in various
innovative ways
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4. Numbers

1432
143
METHODS OF RE-SHAPING
WORDS INTO SLANG
 METHODS OF RE-SHAPING
WORDS INTO SLANG
1. Word Play

 basically involves the re-ordering of sounds

 done through dropping or adding sounds or

syllables to the words from any language
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WORDS INTO SLANG
1. Word Play

 Example:

Bayawak - brother-in-law

from Tagalog bayaw = brother-in-law,

Tagalog bayawak = monitor lizard)
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WORDS INTO SLANG
2. Metathesis

 process of slang derivation pertains to the

switching of sounds within a word

 either through inversion of syllables or by a

complicated re-arrangement of the letters. 
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WORDS INTO SLANG
2. Metathesis

Syllable switching examples:

ASTIG = tough, unfeeling (from matigas, hard)

BIGTU= water (from Tagalog tubig, water)
TOMGU = hungry (from gutom, hungry)
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WORDS INTO SLANG
2. Metathesis

Full reversal

adnagam = beautiful
(from Tagalog maganda, beautiful)
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WORDS INTO SLANG
3. Reduction

involves the shortening or truncation of words

Examples:
amboy
syano
kano
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WORDS INTO SLANG
4. Abbreviations or Acronyms

understood only by an "insider" in a group.

 
Examples:

a. AIDS
b. HIV
c. KGB
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5. "Mix-Mix"

involves the blending of two or more languages

within a given word, phrase or sentence.

Examples:
a. “Anong say mo?”
b. “Baw lang”
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SUMMARY AND REVIEW:

 DEFINE Tagalog Slang

 IDENTIFY the sources of Tagalog Slang
 EXPLAIN the methods of re-shaping a word into
slang
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Questions?