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  2. Tagalog profanity - Wikipedia

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    Tagalog profanity can refer to a wide range of offensive, blasphemous, and taboo words or expressions in the Tagalog language of the Philippines. Due to Filipino culture , expressions which may sound benign when translated back to English can cause great offense; while some expressions English speakers might take great offense to can sound ...

  3. Philippine English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Philippine English vocabulary. As a historical colony of the United States, the Philippine English lexicon shares most of its vocabulary from American English, but also has loanwords from native languages and Spanish, as well as some usages, coinages, and slang peculiar to the Philippines. Some Philippine English usages are borrowed from or ...

  4. List of loanwords in Tagalog - Wikipedia

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    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. English makes the second largest foreign vocabulary of Tagalog after Spanish ...

  5. Philippine English - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Philippine English (similar and related to American English) is a variety of English native to the Philippines, including those used by the media and the vast majority of educated Filipinos and English learners in the Philippines from adjacent Asian countries.

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  7. Tagalog language - Wikipedia

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    Tagalog vocabulary is mostly of native Austronesian or Tagalog origin, such as most of the words that end with the diphthong-iw, (e.g. giliw) and words that exhibit reduplication (e.g. halo-halo, patpat, etc.). Besides inherited cognates, this also accounts for innovations in Tagalog vocabulary, especially traditional ones within its dialects.

  8. Chavacano - Wikipedia

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    For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Chavacano or Chabacano ( Spanish pronunciation: [tʃaβaˈkano]) is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines. The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest concentration of speakers.

  9. Siyokoy (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Siyokoy (linguistics) Siyokoy. (linguistics) Siyokoy is a term coined by Virgilio Almario that refers to Filipino-language hybrid words seemingly derived from both English and Spanish. [1] The Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino under the administration of Almario has considered siyokoy words to be improper and therefore its use discouraged.