Old Tagalog

== English == === Proper noun === Old Tagalog The unattested early stage of the Tagalog language, spoken and sparsely written in the Baybayin script before Spanish contact, that derived from Central Philippine languages and already containing loanwords from Old Malay, Classical Sanskrit, Classical Arabic, Middle Tamil, Classical Persian, Old Javanese, and possibly Medieval Southern Min Chinese and/or Late Middle Chinese, later evolving into Classical Tagalog. ==== Coordinate terms ==== Proto-Austronesian Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Proto-Philippine Classical Tagalog Modern Tagalog (Filipino) === See also === Laguna Copperplate Inscription Baybayin Doctrina Christiana