ABOUT THE WORK

The book is representative of Trinidad Pardo de Tavera’s
intellectual pursuit focusing on linguistics. This is a result
of his exposure to this discipline when he obtained a
diploma in Malay from the Ecole nationale des langues
orientales vivantes in 1885. As a thorough and systematic
study on the links between Sanscrit and Tagalog, this
book gained the interest of other European scholars.
With the publication of this and an earlier related book
(Contribución para el estudio de los antiguos alfabetos
Filipinos) academic journals such as the Journal of the
Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Journal of the Straits
Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society recognize Tavera’s
immense contribution in Asian linguistics.