Excerpt from A Handbook and Grammar of the Tagalog Language It is scarcely necessary to mention that authorities upon Tagalog have not been very plentiful, even with the great revival of interest in the malayo-polynesian languages which has taken place within the last few years. The number of works, old and new, large and small, upon this subject, or bearing upon it, is very close to forty, and many of these are of little value or are obsolete. The number of reprints, however, brings the aggregate up to about one hundred, but this has no bearing upon the material available for study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.