Oras: This comes from the word “Horas” which means time or hour. Kumusta: This would probably be the most famous loanword from Spanish which also has the same meaning as the original word “Como estast. So let’s take a look at some examples of loanwords in Filipino from different languages. Learning Other Languagesįilipino has many loanwords from Spanish, English, Malay, and Chamorro (which is spoken in Guam and Micronesia). Examples are Malacañang Palace or Parañaque City. The Ñ is mostly only used towards names that derive from the Spanish language. The Ñ in Abakada derives from the Spanish language and is pronounced as énye. As an example, the word Hinga (”breath,” “breathe”) and Ngayon (”Today,” “Now”). The Ng is pronounced as it would be in the word “Thi ng,” but often times come with a vowel afterwards. For example, words such as “Radio” would be written as Radyo and pronounced the same way. Though the Abakada alphabet is the first system that the Filipino language was based upon, and the adoption of the English language in Filipino itself has allowed the system to adjust and apply a more modern version of the alphabet, which includes all of the initially excluded letters in Abakada: C, F, J, Q, V, X, Z.įilipino is written the way it is spoken, which helps when learning the language. The Filipino alphabet, also known as Abakada, consists of same letters as the English Alphabet but excludes C, F, J, Q, V, X, Z and includes Ñ and NG. We will encounter these words as we go along.Ī long time ago, what the native Filipinos are using is what we call the “Baybayin” alphabet, it has been replaced by the “Latin” alphabet which is easier to read.The Filipino language has 5 vowels, A, E, I, O, U and 15 consonants, B, K, D, G, H, L, M, N, NG, P, R, S, T, W, Y
Since the Philippines have been colonized by countries such as the America and the Spain being the longest, our language has also evolved. (reference: )Īside from these roots, the modern Tagalog language is also comprised of so many words from the other languages. A composition of Malayo-Polynesian, Malagasy, Javanese, Indonesian, Malay, Tetum of Timor, and Tao language of Taiwan. Tagalog is classified as the language within the Austronesian language family. Very little is known about the ancient history of the language.
The word Tagalog is derived from the endonym taga-ilog (“river dweller”)it is composed of tagá- (“native of” or “from”) and ílog (“river”). Eventually, my children will learn how to speak our mother tongue thus, the reason for this tutorial.īefore we learn the Tagalog or the Filipino language, let us first know the meaning of “tagalog.” But this works to our advantage for now because if there’s an urgent topic I want to discuss with my husband, speaking Tagalog comes in handy. The very one thing I failed to teach my children.
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