There are certain words in Filipino that are basically words from another language (usually English or Spanish) but adapted to Filipino spelling and pronunciation. So what are the differences between the two? For one, Filipino uses a lot of foreign loanwords. In the 1930s, then president Manuel Quezon saw the need to have an official language for the Philippines, so he created a new language, Filipino, which basically uses Tagalog as its base for it's rules and structures. It gained influence over the other 100+ languages of the Philippines by virtue of being the dominant native language spoken around the capital, Manila. Tagalog is the language spoken by the Tagalog people of Central/Southern Luzon. Actually the relationship between Tagalog and Filipino is kind of complicated. "I'm Filipino and I speak Tagalog", sounds way better than "I'm Filipino and I speak Filipino". And I guess, with how we Filipinos are fighting for international identity, especially through social media, it's way better for most of us to have a separate name for our language. Also, "Tagalog" became acceptable because it has its own identity, instead of Filipino, the language, that shares the same name as Filipino, the people. It's a common misconception even amongst Filipinos.Įdit 2: (adding my comment from below for clarity) Tagalog is the evolved version of Filipino. Saying that our language is Tagalog would be the same as saying GB's language is Anglo-Saxon. Now we use the Filipino Alphabet, which is the same as the English Alphabet with the addition of Ng and Ñ.Įdit: Since we're already in the topic of languages, we Filipinos don't speak Tagalog. OP took the creative freedom (and did very well) to use Baybayin, the writing system that we used to have before Spaniards colonized the Philippines. Just to add, the language in here isn't the main language in the PH, that's why there might be a few people here who can't picture this as from Manila.
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