Filipinos are mixed with African natives and Chinese blood. Tagalog sounds the opposite of Spanish brothers; Tagalog is a Hawaiian Pacific Islander Polynesian Malaysian language
Julian Ferteli Did you pay attention at all to the video? Do you know who occupied the Philippines for over 300 years? The Philippines are definitely our distance brothers for sure cause we went through similar pains and struggles involving the Spaniards.
I hope Spanish subject wasn't removed in the Philippines' curriculum! SAYANG! EDIT (Jan. 1, 2021): Happy New Year! WOW! Thank you for the thousand likes! Didn't expect this! I'm refering to the Spanish subject/curriculum back in the early 80s-backwards, because my mom and other relatives mentioned that before they had Spanish language (all schools I guess from elementary to college? Not sure), but after EDSA 1 revolution, the admin. sitting that time removed it for some reason... That's why for me it's a missed or lost of opportunity. If that curriculum wasn't removed, think how more competitive us Filipinos globally? And we're trilingual country! That's a big advantage for us Filipinos imagine that??!
the language sounds similar because Spain conquered the Philippines for almost 400 years. that's why we adopt some Spanish word. and there are a filipino dialect who's really similar to Spanish called chabacano
Chabacano!!!??? Really!!!??? 😱 The word chabacano is a "náhuatl" word, náhuatl is a native language from Mexico, and a chabacano here un México is a fruit.
We can not exclude the Mexican - Filipino connection. We MUST have learned and shared certain things with each other that we did not with Spain. Remember, we helped one another become free from Spain which is only reasonable and natural to believe we have certain things in common with each other that Spain has been left out of. For example, Philippines was a Islamic Malay country prior to Spanish colonization. Which means we shared a lot of influence from, India, Arabic among other more obvious (Southern Chinese). Here we have the term Mariachi which came directly from NorthEastern India through Philippines into Mexico. This completely skipped over Spain.
Many people in the Philippines also have Spanish names, although the Spanish language itself is dying out, it is incorporated into the Filipino language 🇵🇭💓🇵🇪
"Almost the same" is not quite true. Spanish and Filipino are very distinct languages with only few similar words. Some studies say it's about 2-5% of the Filipino language. It's not quite in the league to qualify for that "almost the same" label.
Me gusta filipinas. Hay un similaridad en español y filipino. Yo soy filipino y studio español porque está feliz y yo estoy muy contento en ésta idioma. I am a filipino i study spanish
I really hoped that our Educational System didnt removed Spanish. Our curriculum was kinda fucked up and college students are struggling now to pay bills to learn Spanish. Lucky for us Visayans because our Region was first discovered by Magellan so we knew few Spanish.
Te amo amigos. Wow I'm so really glad that I can speak Spanish a little bit because when I was a kid, I'm watching Dora and I thought that Dora was speaking Tagalog 😂😂
Philippines actually have a language that is not like any others but they use simple words which slowly became part of their language like example work is trabaho but in pure filipino it is hanap-buhay
Not all words. I have a spanish colleague who got curious with how a lot of people say filipino words are like spanish, she butchered the idea. Spoke to me in sentences and i didnt understand a thing.
The woman in the video is not real Spanish. She is from PERU. It is incorrect to say Peru native language is Spanish, because Spanish comes from Spain which is literally half way across the globe. Spanish is their ADOPTED language, because they were colonized as well.
Bisaya, Chavacano and Kapampangan are the Philippine languages that are very close to Spanish. Especially Chavacano which is a Creole-Spanish based language which originally contains 90% Spanish grammar and words and 10% Visayan words.
Removing Spanish from schools was a bad move IMO. This would have given filipinos the ability to be trilingual. Both english and spanish dominates a good % of the world, and we had the ability to communicate in both tongues (along with our native tongue Filipino or Bisaya) this would have given many filipinos jobs as well with an additional call center skill to even being capable of working anywhere with limited language barriers. We are the hispanic-asians. We are like a cultural hybrid of the asians and the latinos (i know, latino is geographically inaccurate but i'm going to use the person as an example)- two of the most celebrated/unique cultures in the world. Embracing that should be something we should be proud of, why let it go?
The forcing of Catholicism wasn't so bad as most internet-"historian" claim. Regardless of whatever force they did, it is nothing compared to the violence that most native type of religions had. For example, the Aztecs used to all that apocalypto shit.. so i would rather have a religion like christianity forced in that shit like that still being practiced. Spanish is important due to global trade, other than english, spanish is also worldly spoken and it also gives that unique cultural mix that no other asian has. Your views are horrible man.
kery mountain They didnt actually "force" it. Friars from the 1600s were much more nice, gentle and holy than those in 1800s/1900s who love to play politics
Some FIlipinos even don't know how to say exact Filipino words. Some don't even speak Tagalog. Because that is not their native dialect.Tagalog is not the only dialect spoken in the Philippines..
That's definitely true, on time my classmates were singing "Porque" by Maldita. They thought it was really Spanish, they were shocked when I told them that it's Chavacano.
I blew my cousins mind when i told them uno dos tres etc was spanish. Were using all these words and many don't realize the influence Spanish had on our culture and language. Many Filipinos hate the Spanish language but you don't see the same with Latin American who don't speak their native tongue anymore. My grandma made sure she never passed down the language when her "tias" and "tios" encouraged her to. Its such a useful language and even in the US, the country is slowly shifting to be more bilingual. Its sad that under Spanish rule we were citizens but when the USA came we didnt had equal rights as other americans. On top of that, they erased the hispanic heritage in the Philippines but now the US is now moving towards a bilingual country, with Spanish being the leading language right after English.
Let me first give a little background about the Spain and the Philippines’ history. The Philippines was under Spanish rule for 333 years. Now, before Spanish colonization, the native Filipino people used what we call Baybayin for reading, writing, and communicating. This is the original Tagalog language. During the Spanish conquest, however, the national language became Spanish, leaving only the uneducated class (then called the indios) speaking in Tagalog. The middle and upper class Filipinos spoke openly in Spanish and Tagalog; this includes several of the Philippines’ national heroes like Dr. Jose Rizal, Gen. Antonio Luna, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, and more. After the 333-year Spanish rule, Tagalog has drastically evolved to include words and diction from the Spanish language. A lot of the Spanish words still remain in widespread use in today’s Tagalog.
I'm Filipino raised in the US and I learned Tagalog when my dad retired from the US Navy and moved our family back to the Philippines. I was surprised how many Tagalog words were actually Spanish-based. But there are words we use that are Spanish in origin that we can have the actual Tagalog equivalent. Like "silya" for chair can be "upuan". "Corazon" for heart is the Tagalog "puso", and so on. Filipinos can interchange or use the word that is common for them, whether in Spanish or Tagalog. However, Tagalog is a totally different language in its entirety. Both languages are beautiful though.
I have a friend who is Puerto Rican and we sometimes exchange words in our native languages. It's amusing whenever we find similarities and differences in our languages, especially since once we learn a word in each other's native language, we try to use it often to each other so we won't forget. :) Thank you so much for this video!
Spanish subject was still a requirement in Philippine College courses until 1990. 3 required classed: beginning, intermediate and advanced (Literature) Spanish.
It wasn't a requirement in my school. But my course had 12 units of foreign language. And I took 6 units of Spanish. This was in the late 1990s. I think UP still offers Spanish language :)
I remember EVERY student in our class being required to translate an English song to Spanish and sing it in front of the classroom. IN HIGH SCHOOL. My closest friend chose the song Maneater. It was a blast
It’s not that Filipino is similar to Spanish, let’s not forget that Spanish was the primary language of the Philippines and they adopted words from Spanish.
Filipino-Tagalog Libro-aklat Trabaho-gawain Silya-upuan Banyo-kubeta Baso-inuminan Lamesa(mesa) - hapagkainan Magkaiba po ang Filipino sa Tagalog. Filipino is national language in philippines ito yung salita ntin na maraming na adopt na language o ginagamit ng pangkalahatan sa pilipinas. Tagalog:isa itong dialect kung mapupuntahan nyo o makakausap ang mga taga batangas, quezon prov., bulacan, cavite, makikita nyo pagkakaiba ng kanilang salita. Ito yung mga pure na tagalog.
It makes a lot of sense, we Filipinos have our own language and we do have a lot of borrowed words from Spanish language its because of our history with the Spaniards....
Thinking that tagalog and filipino are different is like you think cebuano and bisaya' are different, ilonggo and hiligaynon are different, castilian and spanish are different and english and american (refers to american english only) are different
I'm half Mexican and half Filipino, and growing up in both household's, and trying to learn both languages ( Spanish and Tagalog) I find it crazy how similar they are. Even the cultures are somewhat similar.
My great grand mother is pure spanish, me and most of my titas/titos and cousins mostly inherit the looks as well especially the skin color(white), nose and height. My grandfather was so gwapo and meztiso. miss him :(
@@mar-7522 you could say that, but I'm already a mixture of many races since I'm already the 4th generation of my great grandma, but my facial features are mostly Spanish/japanese and Filipino.
I'm Peruvian and this video relates to me. I definitely relate to this video because I've known my neighbors and co workers who are Filipino especially now since I live in Virginia Beach. I find the similarity so amazing for these two languages.
Recommended by RU-vid, Im just happy that I speak spanish now, and working as spanish call center agent, Im proud as a filipino to speak three different languages.
I agree with the translation. Kitchen is also Silid-lutuan Just quite sad about Trabaho, Kutsara and Sapatos, I feel that we should have an authentic tagalog term for it. Like in Malaysia, they call Spoon as Sudu. Sapatos as Kasut. Trabaho as Kerja.
Sad how most Filipinos don’t want their kids to learn Filipino or Tagalog. I’ve seen kids under the age of 21 who studied at a private/international school and most of them couldn’t speak or understand tagalog, and showed no interest of learning the language, even though they grew up here in Manila. I asked one parent why? He said that he’d rather have his kids learn English because it’s a universal language, I asked him why not learn to speak both English and Filipino? He said it’s not a necessity and some of the parents even had the audacity to tell me that Tagalog words are squatter words. They actually think that being fluent in English makes them conyo or an A-lister or elites?! Apparently, these people look native filipinos and it’s sad to know they are ashamed of their heritage. Idk what else to say though. I don’t know. All I’m saying is that I’m proud of my language, and most of all I’m not embarrassed to speak Filipino or even embarrassed to admit that I am a Filipino.
Cessy Prince I personally do not require my daughter to learn how to speak Tagalog but she understands it a tiny bit. Although she speaks Cebuano fluently (not slang) despite being raised in Canada. Both her dad and me are pure blooded Cebuanos. She is multi-lingual though and can fluently speak Cebuano, English, Italian, German, French and Spanish. Sadly, she haven't shown any interest with Tagalog. Don't get us wrong, we Cebuanos can hardly speak good Tagalog with our accent but we excel better in English language. Thus, our preference.
Green Heart Ventures I’m referring to those people who studied and live here in Manila most of their life but wouldn’t want to learn Filipino, would often mock our Filipino subject in school and would degrade people who speaks Filipino fluently but not english.
Cessy Prince Those are people who think that speaking in English would make them smarter, also because that they think Filipino/or any native language is irrelevant and must not be used. And I’m sick of that mindset! Parents must teach their kids both languages. Filipino is still spoken by the majority, even other local languages included. According to research, only about 1% (0.07%) of Filipinos only speak English as their first language in the household. I’ve seen some of my classmates who speak English more often, but at least they can also speak and understand Filipino fluently! But seeing a parent raising their child to only learn English but not Filipino? Also considering that it consists of “skwater” words? That is just absurd. The Filipino language is beautiful by itself, even other local languages. Their perception stands by seeing how other people use it, but that’s only them. How bland. It is encouraged that they must teach both languages. But oh boy, I feel like they’re breaking the law, but that’s just me.
Кит168 Totally get what you are saying. We Cebuanos (Bisaya in general) rarely use Tagalog anywhere in Visayas and Mindanao. If we try speaking Tagalog, it always sounded awkward. Thus, Cebuano has always been our language at home. I'm just proud of my girl to speak fluently Cebuano despite being raised in Canada. Tagalog might only be applicable to Tagalog speaking parents and families but not for Visayans and Mindanao.
Green Heart Ventures I believe that Tagalog/Filipino is still a necessity to learn for every Filipino. They might not speak the language itself, but it is important that they understand it (Like someone who understands English, but doesn’t speak it much). But I think that’s just my bias since I’m a Tagalog myself. (Who can’t even understand any other native language) Personally, I actually don’t mind other Visayans’ accent when speaking Filipino, the important thing is that they can speak it and understand each other. But somehow, I wanted to be fair with them and learn Cebuano as well. I just don’t know which source or online material I should get.
Sayang sabi ng mga matatanda . Dati daw sa panahon nila meron mga paaralan nag tuturo ng spanish . Pero ngayon nawala na kasi focus tayu lahat sa english . Sayang yung spanish . Na language kung . Both sana english / spanish . Kaya natin ehh speak . Dami sana ng opportunity natin maging ibang bansa . Kung lahat ng job demand . Basta marunong kang mag salita both english/spanish
Opinion ko lang ah, pero siguro mas maganda yung English language kesa sa ngayon na Korean Language yung tinuturo. Pero maganda din na dapat Spanish lesson/language nalang ginawa nila.
My Grandparents speak Spanish, until it was removed from the Philippine education curriculum, and it's sad, because most Tagalog words came from Spanish origins, but some Spanish words still in use, specially Numbers
I will marry my beautiful Fiancee from the Philippines soon.. have slowly learned Tagalog from the 6 yrs we been together. It has been easy since Tagalog has a lot of similiar words. Also learning ilocano but trust me, that one is more difficult. She is from Northern Luzon and her 2nd dialect is ilocano. I love and miss the Philippines. The people are some of the friendliest. Greetings from California 🇵🇭🇺🇸
@@clarenceloie8995 no need to get butthurt.. but funny how when i lived in the Philippines for a year and when someone would tell me they don't speak Tagalog they would say "i speak Ilocano, it is my dialect". The fact that my wife says ilocano is her second dialect shows it is still used that way.. this is not a history class. Im just going by experience. Some will say it's their language or their dialect. Doesn't need to necessarily be "language" And googles definition of "dialect says this" "DIALECT" a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group which makes sense since not everyone in the Philippines speaks Ilocano.. most northern region of Luzon speaks it.
@@clarenceloie8995 hahahahaha. Study first before making an argument. Filipino/Tagalog is our nations language and our identity being a filipino. While dialect is also a form of language which we speak in different region or places in the country. And speaking a dialect is also an identity where ethnic group or places you are belong. We have 170+ dialects and i can only speak 3 different dialects of Visaya. Philippines is a country where every city has a bit different culture and vibrant. It is a one country but feels like it has so many country because of different cultures and dialects in every City except the NCR (Manila)
Its no wonder when I worked I had a customer I Thought was speaking spanish so I.tried to.talk back in spanish but dint get a response 😂😂.to later figure out that she was speaking tagalog I Dint know.they were so.similar until then
Language - I love the diversity and similarities. I truly enjoy this channel’s fun informative way of sharing culture. Joan’s voice is so unique. Cheers! 👏🏻
we speak alot of spanish words coz we were colonized by spain for long long yrs.so we adapted the culture and some of their words..especialy ilokano dialects are more on spanish words.almost same spelling
Tagalog and Spanish have a lot of similarities. Spaniards: Cool! Filipinos: Flashback to 333 years of colonization revolts, and Mi Ultimo Adios by Jose Rizal. Goes on a rant after fleshback.
Zamboangano speaker is mostly close to spanish, i am filipino and my native languages is chavacano/Zamboangaño !! Chavacano- tijeras (Gunting in tagalog) Chavacano- baso (cup) Chavacano- cucharitas (bundle of spoons) Chavacano- gracias (thank you) Chavacano- no te vayas (don't leave) Chavacano- muchusimas gracias (thanks alot) Chavacano- alma (soul) Chavacano- amor (love) Chavacano- mondo (world) Chavacano- tiera (earth/mud) Chavacabo- hombre y moher (girl and boy) Chavacano- ciudad/pueblo (city.etc) Chavacano- muerto querpo (dead body) Chavacano- telenovela (about movies eps) Chavacano- fuego (fire) Chavacsno- siello (heaven) Chavacano- puerta (door) Chavacano- casa (house) Chavacao- pendejo,cabron,quero this word for (insulting) :D if we speak the old chavacano there will be 90% kastila and 10% mindanoan, to day the old chavacano known as (barra/creole spanish language are not been practice anymore, we use now the modern chavacano there only 50% kastila remaining ;). Adios amigo y amiga muchusimas gracias... io si oh it's me asah ta queda na ciudad de labuan Zamboanga city, io tambien y chavacano nativo,
Actually the video was wrong comparing Tagalog to Spanish, because Tagalog did not evolve from Spanish, it just adopted many Spanish words. On the other hand Chabacano is a better comparison. Because it is really a creole of Spanish, the similarities will go beyond vocabulary. The grammar of Chabacano is comparable to Spanish, but obviously Chabacano has fewer tenses because creole languages simplify the complicated grammar of the source language. Better compare Tagalog and Bisaya to Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia.
Comments section be like “sayang tinanggal yung Spanish sa subject” we have Spanish subject before , but because Spain colonized us we don’t even have that subject in the first place and since our country got free from them they remove it one of the sign of our independence y’all being hypocrites right now I wish they can put our own language and writting which is alibata back in the future
Only Borrowed Spanish words but Tagalog has different grammatical structure, affixes, suffixes etc. Though sometimes we prefer spanish form of something....
Reynaldo Mamangun Yh I think it has to do with Tagalog words being insanely long sometimes that many people just prefer using shorter loan words to use. Or at least that’s just my theory.
It was all because Spaniards back then colonized the Philippines, So they have to learn about their culture for 200 years or 500, idk cuz I hate history...
One example is the Tagalog / Filipino word "siyempre." It's a borrowed word from Spanish, the spelling of which is "siempre." However, the Filipino meaning is different from the Spanish. Siempre in Spanish means "forever." Example: Solo para SIEMPRE. (Forever alone.). On the other hand, siyempre in Filipino means "of course" or "certainly." Halimbawa: SIYEMPRE naman. Wala ng iba. (Certainly. There's no one else.).
I had an indosian workmate and we countes from 1-10 and found out that we have similar words. Usa, dua, tulo, upat, lima, enem, pito wao, siyam, simpu-o. ( this is one of the northern Philippines' language). Tagalog, however ( the national language) goes almost thesame : isa, dalawa, tatlo. Apat, lima, anim, pito, walo, siyam, sampu.
Spanish was part of our high school curriculum whether one attended a private or public school. It is a subject that we had in our senior year of high school and it was also taught for 4 semesters in college. It was part of our course along side English to complete whatever we majored in. I can still read and understand Spanish. I can still get buy in conversations it at times with hesitation.
English-properTagalog-salitang hiram(borrowed words from spanish) Kitchen-Lutuan-Cocina Chair-Upuan-Silya Book-Aklat-Libro Bathroom-Paligoan-Banyo Work-Hanap buhay-Tabaho Plate-Pinggan-Plato Cup-Tasa-Baso Thats as far as I can remember, and thats the way we tackled this lesson when i was in grade school. Bottom line: Its not the same, it is somewhat similar but not that similar.
Im filipino and studying spanish in an american school...many of our american classmates are struggling while we, filipino students, can understand it in no time
If you wonder why we have a lot of similarities in language. It's because spain conquered philippines for 333years. Filipinos became slave by spanish for 333 years and of course for that very long time of commanding of spanish to filipinos using their spanish language, we filipinos adopted the spanish words
Spanish is taught in the Philippines when you reach college but actually most of our words are of Spanish origin. Our elders here also speaks fluent in Spanish. English is taught from Kindergarten to College while Spanish is taught in college. Some schools also taught French, German, Italian, Chinese, and even Korean.
Most of our words are of Spanish origin? No they are not. Tagalog is solidly an Austronesian language related to Malaysian and Indonesian and has no similarity with Spanish at all.. only 9% of Tagalog has Spanish loan words
Mabuhay! The Filipina in the video is actually speaking Filipino not Tagalog. A common misconception is that the two languages are one and the same when in fact Tagalog is regarded by linguists as different from Filipino. Here's the difference: 1. Loan words - Filipino uses a lot of loan words from languages such as Spanish (such as the ones in this video), English (xerox, aircon, etc), Sanskrit, Middle Eastern languages and many many more. Tagalog on the other hand has a word for most everything and is continually growing and expanding to have a true translation for the loan words Filipino uses such as "chair" would be "silla" in Filipino but "salumpuwet" in Tagalog (which btw roughly translates to "butt catcher" haha) 2. Societal influence - this is related to the use of loan words. Since Filipino is the Philippines' national language, it has to better represent its people who speak a wide variety of languages like Bisaya, Waray and Hiligaynon in the Visayas region. This is due to the archipelagic structure of the country where you have different groups of people living in isolated islands and whose language has evolved differently over the course of millenia. Since we live in the modern age, people are being connected to one another and we now have all these isolated groups intermingling which now poses the challenge of communication through language, thus the development of Filipino. This means that for every word in the Filipino language, the educational system has to look at which words are the most common and most used for a given thing (sorta like creole languages) to teach to students in order for effective communication across all peoples of the nation (which is the true intent of Filipino and why it was made) 3. Age - Filipino was only cultivated to the form it is today during the 1900's. Tagalog has been around for hundreds of years and has since served as the backbone of Modern Filipino, with much of its syntax being derived from Tagalog. 4. Alphabet - Filipino has extra letters like: f, ñ, ng (this is one letter), v, x, z. Tagalog has substitutes for letters that aren't available like: p for f and b for v. This also explains why the stereotypical Tagalog accent sounds like that. 5. Writing system - Filipino uses the Phonetic system of writing, the exact same that Spanish and English speaking countries use. Tagalog can be written this way but can also be written in the native "Baybayin" (not Alibata, this is another misconception), which is very different and is more akin to Sanskrit or Middle Eastern writing systems. Whilst there are many more differences, and with me not being a certified linguist to be able to explain better the nuances between the two, there is one binding aspect about Tagalog and Filipino and that is that they are mutually intelligible to a degree; meaning you can understand what a Filipino speaker is saying if you are a native Tagalog speaker and vice versa. Anyways, both are beautiful languages and both have rich backgrounds and I apologize if you had to scroll through all this. That is to say, I hope someone actually read this hahaha.
WRONG, there is no such thing as separate "Filipino" language from Tagalog parent. Adding loanwords alone are not enough to diverge "Filipino" from Tagalog as "Filipino" speaker from Metro Manila and still understand Tagalog from Batangas and vice versa. Therefore, "Filipino" and Tagalog are the same languages. Another is that Cebuano, Ilocano, Ilonggo, and others are distinct languages from Filipino/Tagalog, therefore these language are not intelligible with Tagalog.
There is only one creole language in the Philippines that is Chavacano derived from Spanish with Visayan admixture. Tagalog and other major Austronesian Filipino languages are not considered creoles nor pidgins but full-pledged languages in their own right. The fact is that Filipino and Tagalog are same languages and only the Philippine government considered Filipino different from Tagalog, in order to impose Tagalogs to non-Tagalogs like me.
Redrum Tagalog is a name of language/dialect in the 4region..so since Quezon was from Tagalog tribe,he declared it as a Philippines national language..so since we are residents of the Philippine islands we are called as Filipino as well as the language.
They brought it back to select public schools as an elective and more Filipinos are taking up Spanish classes these days to get job opportunities in the call center industry, servicing Spanish customers.
Pues claro que comparte, Filipinas formaba parte del imperio y todo el tráfico comercial del imperio con Asia se hacía con un barco que iba y venía entre Manila y Acapulco, se llamaba el Galeón de Manila
Hm. i think you were saying is that Philippines compared or shared (idk what cierta means probably true) History and culture to Mexico. Did i get it right? Tang ina 333 years salamat medyo mukha na kaming pogi at maganda. (Translate it filipino - ingles)
Exact Filipino term for some words that were used: Book - aklat Work - hanapbuhay Chair - Upuan/salumpuwit Bathroom - Palikuran I am not saying it is wrong to use Spanish as it is already accepted as "borrowed words". Our language is young. Beautiful and evolving.
We have PISO and PISO in Spanish .. Piso is a 1 pesos coin in philippines but in Spanish PISO is Floor .. Uno Piso, Dos Piso .. 1st floor and 2nd floor :)))
Different people have different opinions. I am not saying we Filipinos shouldn't be proud. I am emphasizing that it is sad because too many colonization from different countries resulted some culture and language got lost in the process.
Every language has been influenced by another language to some extent. There is no such thing as an "original language" except if you make a completely artificial one like Esperanto. English uses a ton of loanwords from several other languages. And I doubt a Spanish speaker could understand Tagalog at all. By your logic, nobody who speaks Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian or so on should be proud of their language since they are all Romance languages and have been influenced by Latin. The other girl in this video is Peruvian, so you're saying she doesn't have an "original language" either.
The Philippines was a colony of Spain for 336 years while Mexico became a VICEROY of Spain and governed the Philippines on behalf of Spain for 100 years. Dutch occupied the Philippines for 5 years, then British for 5 years and Americans ruled the land for 50 years. During World War 2, Jewish arrived, then at the time of cold war White Russians fled here and many Middle Eastern ran to the Philippines to escape Iran-Iraq conflict.
Even though there are similarities in some words we really not fully understand spanish... I think we must really learn spanish fully to understand it...
Filipinas y toda Hispanoamérica fuimos la misma nación , nos dividieron en naciones más pequeñas y más fáciles de controlar ... #juntossomosmasfuertes Un abrazo a todos los paisanos hispanos del mundo.
we don’t speak Spanish in the Philippines and most of our languages only consist of a very small proportion of Spanish loan words. The real estimate is less than 10% as basically the majority of Spanish loan words are archaic and never used as they have Tagalog and English equivalents that are used 100% of the time. You will find a few Spanish loan words in everyday Tagalog, wether it’s written or Oral, but honestly not much, and many have been converted into Tagalog morphology so the resemblance to Spanish wording or structure is non existent. Overall, Filipino is dominantly an Asian (Austronesian) lanaguge In structure atleast 95% of it. It’s not even an Indo European language like in that super broad category of languages of Eurasian that include Romance languages, English, Hindi, Greek and other languages across Asia and Europe. Tagalog and Spanish in this sense ain’t even cousins. Tagalog grammar is solidly Austronesian. * The way it mangles verbs and dialects is solidly Austronesian. * The way Tagalog messes up its adjectives is Austronesian. * The words that glue everything else together are Austronesian. * That makes Tagalog similar to Malay, Bahasa-Indones, aboriginal Taiwanese, and other languages in this broad ethno-linguistic group. Theres a huge misconception, and people who think Filipino is even remotely similar to Spanish are deeply mistaken. Our lanague does not sound Spanish at all
