When spelling or naming each consonant, its sound is always pronounced with an 'a' at the end (e.g. The collation of letters in the Abakada closely follows those of other Latin-based spelling systems, with the digraph ng inserted after n. The Abakada alphabet has since been superseded by the modern Filipino alphabet (with eight more letters and the repositioning of the letter K) adopted in 1987. The alphabet was officially adopted by the Institute of National Language ( Filipino: Surián ng Wikang Pambansâ). Santos for the newly-designated national language based on Tagalog. The alphabet, which contains 20 letters, was introduced in the grammar book developed by Lope K.
The Abakada alphabet was an 'indigenized' Latin alphabet adopted for the Tagalog-based Filipino national language in 1940.
For other uses, see Tagalog alphabet (disambiguation).
