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The UP Diksiyonaryong Filipino (UPDF; "UP Filipino Dictionary") is a series of monolingual Filipino dictionaries. The dictionaries were created by the Sentro ng Wikang Filipino of the University of the Philippines, with Virgilio S. Almario, National Artist for Literature and a professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman, as editor-in-chief.
Portions of the Bible were first translated by Spanish friars into the Philippine languages in the catechisms and prayer materials they produced. The Doctrina Cristiana (1593) was the first book published in the Tagalog baybayin script. Protestants published Ang Biblia (American Standard Version) in 1905 in Tagalog, based on the Spanish version ...
Atis[ 15] — The Annona squamosa or sugar apple. Awardee[ 2] — One who is given an award. Shared with American English. Bagoong [ 7][ 5] — fermented fish or shrimp paste. Baguio[ 1] — A typhoon. This word is a borrowing from Philippine Spanish. Bakya[ 16] — referring to the lower socioeconomic class.
Historical and linguistic value. The Vocabulario de la lengua tagala by Pedro de San Buenaventura, O.F.M., printed in Pila, Laguna, in 1613, is an important work in Spanish-Filipino literature. Its rarity places it among the limited number of Filipino incunabula — works printed in the Philippines between the years 1593 and 1643—of which ...
An example is the Tagalog word libre, which is derived from the Spanish translation of the English word free, although used in Tagalog with the meaning of "without cost or payment" or "free of charge", a usage which would be deemed incorrect in Spanish as the term gratis would be more fitting; Tagalog word libre can also mean free in aspect of ...
Tagalog grammar. Tagalog grammar (Tagalog: Balarilà ng Tagalog) are the rules that describe the structure of expressions in the Tagalog language, one of the languages in the Philippines . In Tagalog, there are nine parts of speech: nouns ( pangngalan ), pronouns ( panghalíp ), verbs ( pandiwà ), adverbs ( pang-abay ), adjectives ( pang-urì ...
Maranao language. Maranao ( Filipino: Mëranaw[ 3]; Kirim: باسا أ مراناو) is an Austronesian language spoken by the Maranao people in the provinces of Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte and the cities of Marawi and Iligan City in the Philippines, as well as in Sabah, Malaysia. It is a subgroup of the Danao languages of the Moros in ...
Philippine Hokkien [f] is a dialect of the Hokkien language of the Southern Min branch of Min Chinese descended directly from Old Chinese of the Sinitic family, primarily spoken vernacularly by Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines, where it serves as the local Chinese lingua franca [9] within the overseas Chinese community in the Philippines and acts as the heritage language of a majority of ...