The older language of Tagalog spoken and written in the Philippines from about 1521 to 1897 , before soon developing into Modern Tagalog (Filipino) by the time of the Philippine Revolution. It developed from Old Tagalog after Christianization in the Spanish colonial period, with heavy influence from Spanish(Early Modern Spanish and Modern Spanish), Chinese(especially Hokkien), and Japanese. This was also when it first started being written in the Latin script.
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