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1 day ago · Words related to technology, education, and pop culture from English are now common in Tagalog. Spanish Influence on Tagalog: Spanish has also played a big role in shaping Tagalog. It was the Philippine language during Spanish rule. Tagalog borrowed many words from Spanish. Religious terms, food names, and surnames in Tagalog often come from ...
3 days ago · Tagalog refers to a people and to their language. 1. The Tagalogs (the Tagalog people) live in Manila and nearby areas. 2. The Tagalog language is the basis of the Filipino national language. When you ask a native of the Philippines what the country’s official language is, the answer will be “Filipino.”. This is because the constitution ...
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4 days ago · The Filipino language incorporated Spanish loanwords as a result of 333 years of contact with the Spanish language. In their analysis of José Villa Panganiban's Talahuluganang Pilipino-Ingles (Pilipino-English dictionary), Llamzon and Thorpe (1972) pointed out that 33% of word root entries are of Spanish origin. As the aforementioned analysis ...
4 days ago · The Tagalog Language – it should be a matter of great interest to Filipinos that the great scientist, Baron William von Humboldt, considered the Tagalog to be the richest and most perfect of all the languages of the Malayo-Polynesian family, and perhaps the type of them all. “It possesses,” he said, “all the forms collectively of which ...
2 days ago · A typical Filipino lunch ( tanghalian) is composed of a food variant (or two for some) and rice, sometimes with soup. Whether grilled, stewed, or fried, rice is eaten with everything. Due to the tropical climate of the Philippines, the preference is to serve ice-cold water, juices, or soft drinks with meals.
4 days ago · Baybayin ( ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔, [a] Tagalog pronunciation: [bajˈbajɪn]; also formerly known as alibata) is a Philippine script. The script is an abugida belonging to the family of the Brahmic scripts. Geographically, it was widely used in Luzon and other parts of the Philippines prior to and during the 16th and 17th centuries before ...
RICE. Filipinos have many different words for the “rice” that English speakers refer to using one general term. The most common words are kanin, palay, bigas, and sinaing. palay: rice that’s still planted in the fields or still has its golden brown husk on; unhusked rice. bigas: rice that’s been harvested but hasn’t been cooked yet.
