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The Tagalog language and the Filipino language have developed unique vocabulary since the former's inception from its direct Austronesian roots and the latter's inception as the developed and formally adopted common national language or national lingua franca of the Philippines from 1973 to 1987 [1] [2] and as the national and co-official language of the Philippines from 1987 and onward [3 ...
Such is the case of the words baryá (from Sp. barrilla [12]), kabayò (from Sp. caballo), kutamaya (from. Sp. cota de malla), lauya (a stew of meat and vegetables, from Sp. la olla), sibuyas (from Sp. cebollas) and tabliya or tablea (from Sp. tablilla de chocolate). Spanish loanwords in which the digraph [ll] is pronounced as /lj/ in Tagalog ...