Concise English Tagalog Dictionary

by José Villa and Jose Villa Panganiban

Book Overview

This is a convenient and travel-sized English to Tagalog Dictionary Over ten million Filipinos speak Tagalog, the official language of the Philippines. This dictionary addresses the growing need for a concise, reliable, and inexpensive English-Tagalog dictionary. It is ideal for teachers, students, businesspeople, travelers, and others who are interested in studying Tagalog. The key to understanding the Tagalog language is a thorough familiarity with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804819629
• ISBN13: 9780804819626
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Dated, but useful

This dictionary is specifically intended for beginning students, it contains a limited vocabulary(I guess about 7000-8000) English entries, each entry is given from 1 to 4-5 Tagalog equivalents, different meanings of English entry words are shown by synonyms, eg. english_entry - (english_synonym1) tagalog_meaning1, (english_synonym2) tagalog_meaning2, (english_synonym3) tagalog_meaning3 etc. Accent place and glottal stops - an important feature of Tagalog - is clearly shown. The list of affixes appears to be very useful.In short introduction the author relates the troubled circumstances of the WWII in whgich this short dictionary was born.Of course the dictionary is dated, however since it deals only with the very basics of the language which change but very little with the time, it can be quite useful for the contemporary student.