SOUND CHANGES Tagalog Sounds
D becomes R damot - maramot (selfish) dami - marami (many) daw - raw (it is said so) daan - apat na raan (four hundred)
labing labing-isa (eleven) labindalawa (twelve) labimpito (seventeen)
Mang - prefix manggagamot (gamot - medicine) - physician mang-aawit (awit -song) - singer manlalaro (laro-play) -player Mang
mandurukot (dukot-to pick, to draw out from a bad, etc) - a person who pickpockets mambabatas (batas - law) lawmaker
Other Changes final vowel /u/ becomes o in affixation (luto (cook) - lutuin, putol (cut) - putulin) phrase-final vowels are followed by a weak glottal fricative /h/ sound instead of the glotal stop (‘)
word final glotal stop (‘) disappear before clitics and linkers (ng, na) Ako ang pumunta sa labas.