Tagalog
- Language Family
- Austronesian
- Subgroup
- Malayo-Polynesian, Philippine
- Area
- —
Summary
When two consonants are adjacent as the result of vowel elision following suffixation of -an, -in, metathesize occurs in some cases.
Type(s) of metathesis
| Type | Status | Optionality | Position | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a. CC | Synchronic | Obligatory | Adjacent | Root-final |
Case types and qualities
-
- CC
-
- C1:
- Alveolar stop
- C1:
- Alveolar nasal
- C1:
- Rhotic
- C2:
- Bilabial stop
- C2:
- Alveolar stop
- C2:
- Bilabial nasal
- C2:
- Alveolar nasal
Examples
a. Schachter and Otanes (1972)
b. Blake (1925)
cf. No metathesis:
átip
‘thatch’
aptín, aptán (also used: atipin/an)
silíd
‘put in’
sidlán
taním
‘sow’
tamnán
b. Blake (1925)
bílin
‘commend, commit’
binlán
habílin
‘deposit’
habinlán
cf. No metathesis:
kalabit
‘tap with fingertip’
kalbitin
tamit
‘obtain’
tamtan, tamtin
bukas
‘open’
buksan
Conditions
Elision of vowel following suffixation of -an, -in inflectional suffix (forming transitive or intransitive verbs).
Motivations
No motivations could be found
Symbols
Comments
Bibliography
- Blake, Frank. 1925. A Grammar of the Tagalog Language. New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society.
- Schachter, Paul and Fe Otanes. 1972. Tagalog Reference Grammar. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. John Wolff, p.c.