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Tag question is commonly accepted in literature and it functionally conveys interpersonal meaning relating to the communication and stance. Interfacing with the typological study is employed to reveal the construction of tag question in Sundanese within distinctively marked element. This current study is systemic functional typology focusing on interpersonal meaning through mood system. This study uses DIY method adopted by Wodak (2009). Literally, DIY (do it yourself) corpora is one of method to analyze an unlimited data. It is a manual way to representatively serve the large data aiming to analyze a specific case. The data is taken from Mangle and Cupumanik online. It is collected within 2 weeks consisting of 20 texts which contained 100.000 words from an update period. To get the analysis, the researcher uses Antconc software provided the instruments in order to be easily typed in KWIC. After working on it, the data is analyzed through systemic functional linguistics/SFL grounded by Halliday & Mathiessen (2004) and typologically interfaced by Greenbergian approach in order to generalize the system of tag question in Sundanese. The tentative result shows that tag question is significantly more frequent in spoken language than written text and typologically found in private and informal setting. To deepen the interpretation, it delineates the differences and similarities between the constructions of tag question extracted from the corpus.