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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.
This word is shared with British English. Course [18] — Academic degree. Shared with British English partly due to the Spanish word curso and its borrowed form in many Philippine languages. Cutex [10] — Nail polish. Genericized from a popular brand of nail polish currently owned by Revlon. Dean's lister [39] — A person awarded a dean's list
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.
The Tagalog language/ Filipino language [1] has 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 [2] [3] and as the national and co-official language of the Philippines from 1987 and onward [4 ...
The Philippine revolution brought a wave of nationalistic literary works, with propagandists and revolutionaries advocating for Filipino representation or independence from Spanish authority. Illustrados like Pedro Alejandro Paterno, Graciano Lopez Jaena, Marcelo H. del Pilar, and Jose Rizal contributed to the development of Philippine literature.
The use of the word katarungan in the Filipino language is one of the proofs that Filipino is not Tagalog; Academicians in Filipino, particularly from the University of the Philippines, stress that as a national language, Filipino continues and ought to use and incorporate words from various languages of the Filipinos to become a true national ...
Alta Grace Q. Garcia. Morphological Analysis of English and Pangasinan Verbs (1981). Rosa Maria Magsano. Urduja beleaguered and other essays on Pangasinan language, literature and culture. (Manila: Kalikasan Press, 1992). Mario "Guese" Tungol. Modern English-Filipino-Pangasinan Dictionary (Merriam Webster, 1993). Camilo Olaviano Osias.
Yes, Tomboy is an English word that appears in the dictionary which means "boyish", but it means "lesbian" in Phil. usage. I'm referring to this portion of the article: "Some words in Philippine English have a different meaning from their counterparts in standard American or British English." - as in the previously cited examples of "Gimmick ...