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Adds Tagalog (Filipino) · Philippines as Mural’s ninth learning target, using one stable tl progress namespace and the tl-PH locale. Learners can select it during onboarding or in Settings and use the existing conversation, meaning, lookup, vocabulary, topic and backup flows.

Teaching and integration

  • Adds six progressive teaching stages and five Philippine theme adaptations, preserving all 24 shared theme IDs.
  • Covers everyday register, contextual po/opo, inclusive/exclusive pronouns, aspect, voice/focus, participant markers, contractions and regional variation.
  • Preserves meaningful verb affixes in vocabulary: kumakain and kakain share kumain, while kinain retains the distinct citation form kainin. Original quotations and diacritics remain intact.
  • Regenerates Android’s language catalog from the Swift module and tests Tagalog identity, English support and archive isolation in Kotlin. Native sources follow the current apps/ios and apps/android layout.
  • Registers tl-PH in services/api, with alias rejection before credit or conversation-minute reservation. Both funded session paths are covered; native BYOK uses the compiled module directly.

The original guidance draws on Tagalog.com dictionary entries and the University of Hawai‘i’s aspect/focus references. No dictionary corpus, audio or external runtime dependency is bundled. Teaching decisions and references · Implementation and acceptance record

Prevent valid Tagalog from triggering language redirects

Apple’s recognizer classified two long Tagalog passages as Indonesian at 99.25% and 99.97% confidence, reproduced on macOS and the iOS 26.5 simulator. Both exceed the existing redirect threshold. The iPhone app now skips that unreliable detector guard for Tagalog while retaining explicit target-language instructions; existing languages keep their current behavior.

The Debug verification report separates mechanical flowPassed from detection-dependent passed and records the actual detector label/confidence. This does leave English drift outside the detector’s protection, so the live-review checklist explicitly includes it.

Validation

The latest merge includes upstream 3a12147 (English startup fix, PR #28). Both English and Tagalog session tests are preserved, and the upstream native-registry admission test now covers Tagalog too. 357 API tests, 324 Android JVM tests and 53 repository-tool tests passed, with TypeScript check/build, Android Debug assembly/lint and generated-content/contract checks. No iOS source changed; native UI and device/provider checks were not rerun. Latest integration verification

A follow-up review of the other language contributions added five Android regressions for Tagalog word links, aspect/focus vocabulary, homographs, alias rejection and assisted recall, and corrected the Android store description. 320 Android JVM tests and 53 repository-tool tests passed; Android lint and content/contract checks passed. No application or API code changed in this follow-up. Review decisions and source PRs

The earlier merge includes upstream Android parity and hosted-session recovery changes at 926fd95. On 15 September, 351 API tests, 315 Android JVM tests and 53 repository-tool tests passed, together with TypeScript checks/build, Android lint/Debug assembly, generated-content checks and a Swift core build. The Swift XCTest rerun was blocked by the local Xcode license requirement and missing XCTest in the standalone Command Line Tools. The full Swift and iOS UI results in the table below are from 14 September; no iOS application source changed in this latest merge. Earlier merge verification

Check Result
Swift core suite 93 passed, including 20 Tagalog cases
Native UI suite, iPhone 17 / iOS 26.5 25 passed, including 5 new cases
Backend suite, isolated PostgreSQL 17 304 passed, zero skips
Android JVM suite 258 passed, zero skips
Android lint / Debug APK Passed (zero lint errors)
Repository tools / generated content / cross-platform contracts 45 tests passed; consistency checks passed
TypeScript check and build Passed
Debug simulator test build / unsigned Release iPhone build Passed

Tests cover all prompt paths, assisted versus unaided evidence, mixed/foreign proposals, provenance, aspect/focus and homograph storage, archive/import boundaries, late results after switching, onboarding at maximum accessibility size, transcript retention, active-conversation switching restrictions, normal relaunch persistence and hosted credit/minute reservation and settlement. Focused Tagalog and locale tests were run before implementation and failed, then passed with the completed feature. Detailed verification

Pending: real-device/provider conversation and proficient-speaker review of recognition, pronunciation, translations and correction/lemma quality. Automated fixtures establish application behavior, not linguistic quality. No real API call was made for this change. Android validation covers JVM tests, lint and compilation; its platform classifier and device conversation remain unverified for Tagalog.

No archive migration, package update or signing change is required. Older builds without tl reject Tagalog archives and must be upgraded before importing.

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Unedited simulator previews with synthetic data; the third image uses the largest accessibility text size.

Tagalog selected during onboarding Tagalog cafe conversation with English meaning Tagalog selection at maximum accessibility text size

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  • New Features

    • Added Tagalog (Filipino) as a supported learning language on iOS and Android.
    • Added Tagalog teaching guidance, themes, vocabulary, onboarding, settings, and persistence support.
    • Added Tagalog support for hosted conversations using the canonical tl-PH locale.
    • Prevented unreliable speech-language detection from redirecting Tagalog conversations.
    • Added contextual word meanings and offline Mandarin phrase lookup on Android.
  • Documentation

    • Updated language support, API, build, integration, and Tagalog guidance documentation.
    • Added verification details and expanded Tagalog workflow coverage.

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Uy Pinoy! Awesome!

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Tagalog (Filipino) is added as the canonical tl language with locale tl-PH across iOS, Android, and the hosted API. The change adds teaching content, speech-detection safeguards, learning-flow coverage, UI tests, provider tests, release metadata, and implementation documentation.

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Tagalog language implementation

Layer / File(s) Summary
iOS language module and speech-flow integration
apps/ios/Core/Languages/*, apps/ios/Core/TeachingPolicy.swift, apps/ios/App/*
Defines and registers Tagalog, adds teaching and theme content, disables detector redirects for tl, and supports active and ended conversation previews.
Android registration and shared language contract
apps/android/app/src/main/java/chat/mural/core/Languages.kt, apps/android/app/src/test/*, apps/android/README.md, README.md
Adds and registers the Android Tagalog module. Tests validate metadata, namespaces, teaching policy, archives, captions, vocabulary, evidence handling, and language counts.
iOS learning, archive, and UI validation
apps/ios/Tests/*, apps/ios/UITests/MuralUITests.swift
Adds coverage for prompts, vocabulary, archives, assessments, meaning requests, onboarding, language switching, accessibility, and relaunch persistence.
Hosted tl-PH provider integration
services/api/src/live-provider.ts, services/api/tests/*, services/api/README.md
Adds the canonical hosted locale and Tagalog prompt. Tests reject aliases and validate session creation, reservations, and settlement.
Implementation guidance and verification records
TAGALOG-PLAN.md, docs/*, release/*, marketing/*, verification/*
Documents Tagalog identity, teaching decisions, detector limits, build steps, release metadata, screenshot coverage, and verification results.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Learner
  participant iOSApp
  participant LanguageRegistry
  participant TeachingPolicy
  participant HostedAPI
  Learner->>iOSApp: Select Tagalog
  iOSApp->>LanguageRegistry: Load language id tl
  LanguageRegistry-->>iOSApp: Return tl-PH module and themes
  iOSApp->>TeachingPolicy: Check speech detection support
  TeachingPolicy-->>iOSApp: Disable detector redirect for tl
  iOSApp->>HostedAPI: Create session with tl-PH
  HostedAPI-->>iOSApp: Return Tagalog session instructions
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18-18: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the Android language count.

Line 18 still says Android has “the same eight language modules,” but this change adds Tagalog and Line 126 confirms it is included in Android’s generated catalog. Update the sentence to describe nine modules.

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In `@README.md` at line 18, Update the Android client description to state that it
includes nine language modules instead of eight, leaving the rest of the
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In `@apps/ios/UITests/MuralUITests.swift`:
- Line 230: Update the affected MuralUITests test to restore the Norwegian
language setting before it exits, ensuring the Tagalog value persisted in
application storage cannot affect later tests. Keep the existing test behavior
unchanged apart from cleanup.

In `@marketing/screenshots/language-support/README.md`:
- Around line 23-25: Add a layout-visibility assertion to
testTagalogOnboardingAtLargestAccessibilitySizePreservesSubtitleChoice that
verifies the card text and Continue button fit within the viewport before
describing tagalog-accessibility.png as full; if the capture is clipped, qualify
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In `@README.md`:
- Line 18: Update the Android client description to state that it includes nine
language modules instead of eight, leaving the rest of the sentence unchanged.

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