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What is the unifying language of the Philippines?
Filipino, the national language, is the unifying factor of the Philippines. It allows citizens to communicate with one another in many remote areas that in turn, assimilates their native language to the national language and will be united.
Is Indonesian an Austronesian language?
Major Austronesian languages include Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, and Tagalog (Filipino). The family is aptly named, because most Austronesian languages are spoken by island dwellers. Only a few languages, such as Malay and the Chamic languages, are indigenous to mainland Asia.
Why does Philippines have different languages?
The people of the Philippines were not united under one government, but were under many smaller governments, and they had many different languages and many different dialects of each language. This spread could have also contributed new words and concepts to the existing languages.
Is Indonesia bigger than Philippines?
Indonesia is about 6 times bigger than Philippines. Philippines is approximately 300,000 sq km, while Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, making Indonesia 535\% larger than Philippines.
What is the difference between Tagalog and Indonesian and Malay words?
On the other hand, Indonesian and Malay use negara for ‘country’, from Sanskrit नगर nagara, where Tagalog uses an Austronesian word bansa, related to the Indonesian and Malay word bangsa, or ‘nation’. The word for ‘part’ in Tagalog, bahagi, is an Austronesian word related to the Indonesian and Malay bagian.
What is the origin of Filipina?
Filipina, secara rasminya Republik Filipina, ialah negara kepulauan di Asia Tenggara yang terletak di bahagian barat Lautan Pasifik. Because of Spanish colonisation, Spanish loanwords are sometimes used in Tagalog where Indonesian and Malay, due to Indian and Middle Eastern influence, would use Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian loanwords.
What is the Indonesian word for dating in Tagalog?
Indonesian/Malay word selamat datang (with “e”) is welcome in english and that english word in tagalog is equivalent to maligayang pagdating. The tagalog word dating means arrive while maligaya means happy.
What makes Tagalog sentences so flexible?
We see that the verb can be ‘conjugated’ in two ways that clearly shows passive and active voice, something Bahasa also doesn’t have. It is also this that allows Tagalog sentence to be flexible by being both SVO or VSO in order depending on how the person wants to say it.