7Arabic 8MinNan(Hokkien),Yueh(Cantonese),andMandarinChinese 9Japanese 10Nahuatl(AztecMexican) 11Arawak–Taíno–Caribbean/CentralAmerican 12References o12.1Additionalreadings 13Seealso [edit]Spanish SpanishisthelanguagethathasbequeathedthemostloanwordstoTagalog. Accordingtolinguists,Spanish(5,000)haseven...
Silahis is an expression of the Tagalog language, a loanword from the Cebuano, used to refer derogatorily to bisexual people. However, if we go deeper, and given this Filipino peculiarity that makes it difficult to separate identity and orientation, we see that there are homosexual men who ...
Once upon a time, these two languages were referred to as “dialects” of the same language. But they’re ‘dialects’ in the same way that French and Spanish are ‘dialects’ of Latin – perhaps even less so. Nonetheless, the Filipino people wanted a single, national language, and so,...