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Abakada


 

Abakada is a Filipino alphabet of 20 letters introduced by Lope K. Santos and adopted by the National Language Institute of the Philippines in 1973.

Related Topics:
Filipino - Alphabet - Lope K. Santos

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The 20 letters of Abakada are written as a b k d e g h i l m n ng o p r s t u w y. The alphabet was intended to be entirely adequate for phonetic representation of the language but subsequent additions extend it to 28 letters by 1987.

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