Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27090994-20170426115424/@comment-5691615-20170523223306

Skaitleen03 wrote: Yeah. If im thinking corrctly, filipino is kinda mix of spanish and english but there are allot of different words.

(Im sorry if i got that wrong. I dont wanna accidentally trigger other filipinos here) .....yeah, no. filipino is its own language and is absolutely not a mix between spanish and english. by that logic japanese is a mix between chinese and english since some japanese characters are borrowed from chinese characters and some japanese words are just english words pronounced in a japanese way- and japanese obviously isn't a mixture of chinese and english. it's its own language just like filipino.

there are also many filipino dialects such as tagalog, bisaya and illocano (i think) and almost all are very different from eachother. when i hear my mother speak in bisayan i never hear a spanish word come up.