Comparison of Manila vs. Cavite Tagalog (Maharlika Timeline)

The Tagalog language (Tagalog: Baasang Tagalog, Maharlikan: Bahasa Tagalog), is a language native to southern-central Luzon in Maharlika. The earliest-written piece of Tagalog commences back to 700 A.D., with the finding of the Manila Copperplate Inscription, detailing the marriage between a Tagalog king, as well as his queen. Another, the Laguna Copperplate Inscription was found, dated 900 A.D., which was also accompanied by Old Malay and Old Javanese text.

During the Spanish colonization, two distinct dialects of Tagalog emerged, "Manila Tagalog", spoken in the un-Christianized and un-Hispanized areas of southwestern Luzon, and "Cavite Tagalog", spoken in Cavite (today Tengwai), the capital of Spanish Philippines. Both dialects became so distinguished, in that Manila Tagalog contains large influences from Old Malay, Classical Malay, Arabic, Old Sanskrit and even Javanese, while Cavite Tagalog, which was also known by "Hispano-Tagalog" or "Colonial Tagalog", absorbed many Spanish loanwords, and Spanish influence, and later English loanwords from the American administration.

Within the Sultanate of Manila, it was often known as "Bahasa Maynila", or the "language of Maynila", and became a common mode of communication, with the Kapampangans of Tondo. Old Tagalog was written in Baybayin, an Indian and Indonesian-origin script, and was continued to be used during the Islamization and Hispanization of parts of south-central Luzon. However, Baybayin was gradually displaced by Alibata, an Arabic and Jawi-based script for written in Tagalog, and the Latin script in Spanish-dominated areas.

However, during the Maharlikan revolution of Datu Paras, Cavite Tagalog has long-since fell out of use, and there is a large social stigma attached to the use of Cavite Tagalog. Datu Paras' chronicaller,