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Modern Tagalog, or Filipino as the National Language, is widely famous for its high ability to adopt lexical units from various languages in contact. Through the ages it has assimilated a vast amount of borrowings, primarily from Malay, Sanskrit, Chinese, Arab and later, Spanish and English.
English words borrowed by Tagalog are mostly modern and technical terms, but some English words are also used for short usage (many Tagalog words translated from English are very long) or to avoid literal translation and repetition of the same particular Tagalog word.
We can take some examples from the English language throughout the ages. English has borrowed words for types of houses (e.g. castle, mansion, teepee, wigwam, igloo, bungalow ). It has borrowed words for cultural institutions (e.g. opera, ballet ). It has borrowed words for political concepts (e.g. perestroika, glasnost, apartheid ).
Feb 3, 2014 · Today English borrows words from other languages with a truly global reach. Some examples that the Oxford English Dictionary suggests entered English during the past 30 years include tarka...
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Nov 1, 2008 · In the Philippines, early borrowings from Tagalog include anting-anting (`an amulet'), pili (`a tree and its edible nut'), tuba (`an alcoholic drink made from coconut sap'), whereas borrowings...
Jun 27, 2018 · ROMANI, TAGALOG. BORROWINGS INTO ENGLISH In the following sections, arranged according to the world's major regions, is a wide selection of languages from which at various times and in various ways English has borrowed.
In Tagalog this group is mostly represented by the recent borrowings from English, which are abundant in the modern Tagalog, or Filipino, especially in the everyday speech of educated Filipinos and in media, politics, economics and science.
