Similarities Between Chinese and Filipino 

I edited the original so you guys wont know what these people are talking about. Mwahaha. - march 2021

Most of the Chinese words in Filipino language came from the Hokkien dialect from Fujian province.

Filipino: mixture of english spanish italian malay indonesian and chinese and its own

the first chinatown in the world is in the philippines...about 6oo yrs ago or so...mostly the immigrants were hokkien...so it might be that many hokkien words assimilated with the tagalog words over the centuries and most filipiinos didnt even realise it...like tsaa for tea...siomai(dumplings) siopao(bao)...and the hokkien for ate(big sister) is "a ci"/ a-tsi... etc

2nd girl on the left could be mistaken as Filipina

the reason why tagalog has chinese words is because of hokkien influence. there are many filipino words throughout the whole country (not just in tagalog) that is influenced by words shared by chinese filipinos who have for centuries even before the spanish arrival has permeated philippine society. chinese filipinos are usually mostly hokkien(fukien/fookien/minnan) people of southern min in the southern part of the province of fujian in southern china btw @Bahador Alast in the future, might be interesting to bring in a Singaporean or Malaysian Chinese who knows Singaporean Hokkien or Malaysian Hokkien and/or a Taiwanese who knows Taiwanese Hokkien in the future. dont worry, many chinese singaporeans , chinese malaysians, and taiwanese know hokkien

Suki is not just a customer, it should be LOYAL customer.

When you're a filipino and all of the races are your cousins

The chinese guy seems really cool

Filipinos were mostly influenced by the Hokkien dialect or the Amoy dialect..that's probably why the Mandarin and Cantonese language didn't connect much. But Still awesome!

It would be interesting if the Chinese speakers spoke Taiwanese or Hokkien! :) I think most of the Chinese Tagalog words are derived from Hokkien. "Soybean oil" or "daoyou" in Taiwanese is soy sauce. I like this series!

Those Chinese are overthinking a lot cause of the tones and whatnot. :) Filipino language has no tone and has no schwa, it's just straightforward vowels AH EH EE OH OO. Really enjoyed this video. The Chinese guy is so funny.

I can hear more noises from lauging and giggling than the essence of this video

"Ate" (AH - TEH) is not just a sister. It's an honorific for an older sister or any female who is about 15 years older than you who you are on friendly terms with.

The video took 32 mins because they were just laughing and giggling the whole tine

Awesome! It's good to see the people of 2 neighbour countries in one video. Waiting for Filipino vs Malay (or other Austronesian languages) challenge soon. That's gonna be fun!

This is a typical example why mandarin people and cantonese people do not understand each other. hahaha. just joking.

I think this show can break cultural boundaries and find our similarities only just finding words we all have in common. Great job!

Hokkien might be closer to those Tagalog words.

This group was so cool😊apart from challege they were having so much fun together👍Good job💟

My town in Panay they found so many Chinese Antiques burried underground when they were making the roads. I believe ancestors of Chinese origins burried them underground due to several occupations/ wars in our islands. Just to relate my Grandpa is a short, native aborigine married to my Spanish descent grandma. My uncles and cousins look Americans, I look like Indonesians and so my other 2 kids, my last kid look Chinese. His dad don't look Chinese and so my side. Filipinos are like a salad bowl. Great topics. What school you guys from?

Filipino is an Austronesian language. There will be many same words with Malay or Indonesian; and some similar words with Hawaiian, Maori or Samoan. Would be cool if you could have a comparison between Filipino and any of those languages :)

(Tong se) Tanso in tagalog, Copper in English, chinese traders came to the phils. before magellan discovered, so a lot of chinese words learned by early filipinos, until now most filipino household used it.(Ate - tagalog, - atsi or achi in chinese)

“We have more in common than that which divides us”.

Didn't realize that there actually are similarities between the Filipino and Chinese language. I love your videos. I'm learning a lot. ^_^

A good amount of the Filipino/Tagalog words are from Fukien/Hokien, now called Fujian. The original words sound much closer to their Cantonese counterparts, and sometimes Mandarin too.

Most Sinitic loan words in Tagalog came from the Holo dialect, which developed into a localized Holo branch in the Philippines called Lán-lâng-ōe, or Filipino Hokkien. The similarity is much more striking if you had asked Taigi speaking Taiwanese people there. If you are lucky enough to get a Taiwanese person who could speak Taigi as well as an Aboriginal language, there are even more cognates that they would get from one another. The same words in Taigi: só-sî : key lâm-lōo-ing : hawk tāu-iû : soy sauce a-tsé : older sister tâng : copper tsú-kheh : main customer

Here are some prominent Family names in the Philippines but i think have chinese roots: Tuazon means first or eldest son ( or grandson) Dizon means Second son Samson is third one Sison is fourth one Gozon is the fifth one Lacson is the sixth one

Wow great video Bahador jan! I really enjoyed it and appreciate all the effort you put in! Your videos are truly amazing 🙏💚

Tagalog or Filipino has a lot of loan words from different languages: Malay/Indonesian, Chinese (mostly from Hokkien), Spanish, English, Nahuatl, Sanskrit, Tamil, Japanese, Arabic and Persian...

I love your videos:) I firstly thought it was not really a good option to compare Filipino and Chinese but the guests did a great job in making it so fun to watch!!

Im filipino, but long time ago my great great grand father was chinese.but we don't speak chinese anymore.

Bisaya Philippines vs. Bahasa Indonesia...I know there’s a lot of same words

Wow cool! I accidentally saw this and watch. I am a Filipino and i can speak both Mandarin and Cantonese.

This is the most interesting to watch about language challenges, connecting Filipino words to Chinese words. Brilliant!

2:20 Actually in cantonese hawk can be "lô yeng" and mandarin "lao ying" not just 鹰 ying but 老鹰 there is one more sound which made the word sounds similar to the filipino.But if I am the one who was guessing probably I would have failed as well.

I can really see the difference between the similarities. Like the pronunciation is very confusing and different. Unlike in Bahasa Indonesia, most words have the same pronunciation and similar spellings.

“It’s in the bird species” “IS IT A DRAGON?!”

Filipino is closer to Chinese Fujian Minan Dialect because most Filipino Chinese come from that region 老鷹 Lawin = Law-yieng, 棉布Bimpo = Binpo 鑰匙 Susi = So-Si 大姐 Ate = Achi 熟客 - Suki frequent customer

That was fun.... Remember chinese from more that a hundred years travel to the philippines as traders and filipinos adofted not just japanese, american, spanish but also chinese word on our own vocabulary or languages

As someone who speaks both languages (more Filipino than Chinese), I felt so stressed putting myself in their shoes. 😂 A Chinese person speaking in the Hokkien dialect would've had an easier shot. But in general, the tonal, character-based nature of Chinese would've been thrown off by Filipino, since the Filipino language can use many syllables for 1 word with possible variations how it's said.

Joan is the smartest among them.

Somebody probably mentioned this already, but Ate is from Hokkien like many other common Tagalog words. Cantonese sounds so distant from the borrowed Fukkien words. 😏❤️ but i love this video, i see more interaction and reaction especially from the Chinese speaking friends. 😏👍

Ate, Diche, Sanse, Kuya are rooted in Chinese. Susi, pandit, lumpia, siopao, and on and on are from Chinese roots. Filipino Y DNA Haplo Group O is the same as in China, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan.

Notice how the Chinese speakers say that they speak, “Cantonese” I think it would be helpful if the Filipino speakers can specify that they speak Tagalog. Yes, it is the “main” language of the Philippines but there are more than a handful languages in the Philippines that differ so much from Tagalog and it’s a misconception that Tagalog is the only Filipino language to other outside countries. Hope you see this as constructive feedback! Really love your channel I’ve been binge-watching them all bc I just love languages and really love discovering similarities myself!

You have a person having a conversation with this person and u have another there and u have a person having a conversation with themselves .. its just a mess.. AND I LOVE IT

They're all interesting to watch. Happy people haha. Nice video. I'm glad this appeared in my recommended videos

This reminds me 10 years ago when I meet a co worker from Hualien County in Taiwan we have a lot of similar words when I speak my native dialect which is Ilonggo and he can easily understand me when I speak Ilonggo I can vividly remember he jumps for joy each time he guess the word I say without using gesture.

i speak cantonese and i was super lost. you did better than i would have ! good job !

The 3 Chinese people are Cantonese, maybe came from HongKong? I guess. Because it seems that they even can not say Mandarin(Chinese) correctly in pronunciation. The first question from Philipinas is Lawin(sounds like laowing), if they can use Chinese well , they would get the answer very quickly......(an animal in the sky LoL), it"s Laoying(老鹰)， means Hawk, that is a easy question. But the 3 guys just only know Ying(鹰)? in Mandarin? Laoying is a very very popular word!!

If only all Filipino and Chinese were close like this,,it will be great!!! Its cool!

It's unfair for the Chinese to guess or to know the answer, it's advantage to Filipino to know mostly of the word that given since we have chinese ancestors or we have a lot of chinese or half fil & chinese here in the philippines.

the thing is, filipino is close and similar to a different dialect of Chinese that isn't cantonese or mandarin... this was why there were so much disagreements and second guessing LOL should bring in someone who speaks HOKKIEN.

So entertaining to watch two different cultures learning about similarities in their language. :)

I love the analogy part of this when you break down each word. Looks like a fun group too.

The "similarities" in the language are mainly due to an isolated culture being exposed to things that they did not have a word for (usually brought by the migration of people from one culture into another) and using the new word instead of creating their own.

these are GREAT! i was also interested in the relationship between Tagalog (Filipino) and Chinese, as I had studied Mandarin, unfortunately not Cantonese, and i have a very close friend who speaks Tagalog (native primary language), English (second language but not bad!), and lives in Hong Kong and explains she can somewhat understand more than would be guessed from the Cantonese speakers.... but i am yet more interested in ANY connections between these language groups.... I am only fluent in English. I have studied Biblical Hebrew for many years, and have spent a number of hours on line and in books on Arabic because of the obvious relationships, and then because I am an artist and I can use the cool Arabic Script aesthetic elements in doing Hebrew calligraphy... while making statements about Unity between our peoples, at the same time. Of course Farsi is yet another dynamic which is quite humbling to me, despite its adoption of Arabic script. (i'm really an artist, NOT a linguist, but this is amazing). Thanks!!!!

Filipino’s more Hokkien-Cantonese, the southern Chinese languages, I think. Because I have cousins in Hong Kong, and instead of saying ‘ate’, they say ‘atsi’ or ‘achi’, and I know a lot of ‘shobe’, ‘ditsi’ or ‘dichi’, etc.

From 2020 Remember we had no COVID 19 and everyone could sit together ! (We can't even get to gather now)

All of them be talking at the same time and I be like stfu Edit: I don't mean it in a rude way

JOAN is a wife-material her smile is so pretty and refreshing

Ang chinese gamay mata pero dako kita.....ang pinoy dako mata pero gamay kita.

Enjoyed watching this. More of Filipino language vs. Others like Dutch, Japanese, Korean, French.. I subscribed. 💪

right:it's an animal right:it's a bird left:is it a mouse? at this moment my head starts hurting

Can you do Spanish vs. Filipino

If u hv Indonesian friends,do this language challenge, we have alot Similarities in language with Netherlands/Dutch, like Rok(skirt), koelkast(refrigerator), tas(bag), tomaat(tomato), kantoor(office), bioscoop(cinema), tante(aunt), recklame(advertisement), kalkoen(turkey), klaar(finish), telaat( late), koffer(suit case), slaang(pipe) etc..

I wish there more more content like this on youtube. Wholesome, fun and interesting. It might have been a little rough but what doesnt need a little improvement.

The vast 99% majority of Filipinos actually have no Spanish ancestry but more than 30% of the population have East Asian ancestry. Filipinos having spanish surnames is actually a result of a law that passed in 1849 where a Spanish naming system was implemented on the population. Furthermore, the Philippines was not a settler colony like much of Latin America but an extractive colonial trading outpost. The Spanish population ratio throughout the entire colonial period always remained a very small minority. In addition, the archipelago's main function was to be not a productive center like Mexico and Peru but a hub for commercial relationships with Asia. Native Filipinos, Chinese, and other groups of Asian origin chronically outnumbered the Spaniards significantly in the Philippines. Whereas in the colonial centers of Mexico City and Lima approximately half of the population was of Spanish descent, in Manila and throughout the Philippines, the Spaniards continued to be a minority never reaching more than 9,000 by the late 19th century out of a Filipino population of some 10 million Filipinos. Much of the large greater proportion of the Population in the Archipelago came from Malay and Chinese Descent. Furthermore, the Spanish Mestizos only accounted for 0.4% of the population while the Spaniards numbered 0.1% out of 10 million Filipinos and Chinese. This was a very different situation in comparison with the America’s where the majority of the populations throughout was of Mestizo indian and pure Spaniard backgrounds. Disease also did not wipe out large swathes of the Filipino population which would have otherwise increased the Spaniard to local ratio but on an insignificant level due to the small influx of Spanairds present in the Philippines to begin with . Being part of the old world, Filipinos probably had a non-zero immunity to diseases like smallpox. In contrast, the Aztec and Inca civilizations were brought to their knees by the disease - let alone the smaller Ameri-Indian societies. the physical features of 99.9% of Filipinos very much resemble other south East and east Asians like Malays, Indonesians, Thai , Vietnamese, Cambodians, etc and Japanese, Chinese. These are what people in Latin America look like where much of the population are truly mixed with Native American and Spanish:

Filipino language is Austronesian language but it adopted several languages from different countries like Spain, US, Latin, India, China, Arab, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Japanese.

I like this episode cause everyone's talking to each other it's not so quiet and awkward!

I have to give this a like! Hehe thank you! I only knew Spanish words we borrowed or influenced by as Cebuano speaking Filipino. So to actually know that a lot of words in Filipino is derived from Chinese ( Cantonese or other form -I’m not familiar with other dialects they speak ) is awesome. And I also know a word from the far Eastern people-the voyagers, had similar words to Filipino words. It goes to show that damn it’s a small world after all 😆! And what matter is that we support and respect each others culture/race/tradition/ethnicity because in the end, we all came from one circle of life here on earth. Thanks for this video!!! Please do more!

We say "soybean oil" but it is translated to "soybean sauce", that is a bit unfair for the Filipino team.....

I enjoyed seeing how much fun they seemed to have learning from each other. :3

you can tell it's filipino and chinese content because their talking all at the same time. 😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️

Everyone is talking at the same time.

It's legit. The Chinese side is loud...

Filipino: English, Spanish, Sanskrit, Malay, Chinese, etc. Indonesian: English, Dutch, Sanskrit, Malay, Chinese, etc. 👍👍

"Ate" is pronounced "ah-zhi" in Hokkien (actual spelling used in Philippine Romanized script is "achi;" traditional script is highly syllabic, like an older Hanggul, and doesn't have consonant+h or consonant+s, so in the old script it's written more like "ha-cci" or something like that, can't remember anymore because nobody uses it outside of myth-themed TV/movies). Filipinos won't immediately recognize Mandarin because even if it's taught in schools (and even then it's only taught at the primary and secondary levels in Chinese schools), at home Hokkien is relatively more common. "Suki" is also related to the Chinese word mentioned as it translates more specifically as "regular customer," ie, the original Chinese word pertaining to installments or delivery before full payment was something you would only do for a regular customer before modern bank notes or credit cards.

i really learned a lot. My fave word is the tea which is tsaa for us in the Philippines but it's like a borrowed word from China.

Kuya is the elder brother and Ate is the elder sister, Mas batang kapatid is the younger (he/she's sibling) and the last is Bunso is the youngest sister/brother Bonus words: Kapatid is Sibling

This is really the creative way to understand every language

I'd say this is the most exciting and funniest video I watched so far when it comes to your language games

Thai would be interesting to compare since it has elements of both Chinese and Pali & Sanskrit Indian languages, as well as being distantly related to Philippine languages.

This is so Perfect Similarity! Languages Tagalog also I'm Filipino.... ! We Awesome!!!

I noticed that the Chinese speakers had been trying to guess the wrong word (pawis) in the sentence until the Filipino speaker with the necklace accidentally said it (bimpo) in 28:22. Watch their reactions when that nugget was revealed. Good job with this! It was fun to watch!

well yeah, since before the spanish era, filipinos and chinese were already trade partners, theres no doubt that a part of our language is from chinese

Great content and very informative! Good job mate!

I guess we have a better bet at this, considering that the Filipino was the “borrower”. Plus it’s harder for the Chinese considering they have a tonal language. There’s a lot of possibilities.

I know Ate because I know so many Filipino people :) if you don't know Ate you don't have enough Filipino friends

It is interesting to know that Manika has the oldest China town in the world. Likewise, Cebu is the province where our modern tokways such as Henry Sy and John Gokongwei came from. The Chinoy or Chinese Filipino group are considered as no different from other Filipino dialect group. And yes, a considerable lot of Filipinos have Chibese blood but don't speak any Chinese dissect except those insular Chibese families which still kept with tradition. In fact, some of my Chinoy countrymen working in Singapore and Hongkong vacant easily speak with the locals in putonghua. Filipino word ps Have a lot of Chinese infused in them such as Hikaw ( earring), susi (key) Siopaw( char siew pao) etc....

Pre spanish time in the Philippines you can imagine a lot of chinese roaming major cities. We have food like siomai, lumpia, humba, a lot more.

Philippines is so advantage to all similar language bcz we can speack many dealect here more than 4 dealect including tagalog and some dealect we undestand

The show gets much better, more entertaining than before (^u^)

its educational and fun to watch,, nice job!!!

I think wherever Filipinos will go they can understand a little bit of every languages.

I love how you put all these people together.

Shoutout to JOAN, She's pretty

they should've invited people who can speak filipino dialects like Cebuano/bisaya, ilonggo and chavacano

This is the most fun video I've seen of yours. Thanks to Mr. Prison Break, haha!

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