What is Filipino?

A brief history of the Filipino national language.

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[trokoro]

Before Spain neither the Filipinos nor the Philipines exist as they were just a lot of islands with many different languages and without any political union. The name Philipines comes from the King of Spain Philip II (Felipe II) as during his Kingdom those islands were colonised by the Spaniard Legaspi, founder of Manila and Christianism was spreaded by Spain contrary to the Muslims who were expanding in Indonesia and Mindanao. Before Spain, Philipines and the Filipinos as such didn´t exist.

[Thudothwacker]

@trokoro LOL Your careless assertion on no political union is absurd. The type of goverment then was fuedal. Small satelites kingdoms within the empire.

Britannia or british is a latin origin. Did you hear the Brits to make a big fuss about it? Only the an illinformed make noises.

There are facts Atlantis exist. Even Plato mention it in his writing.

[trokoro]

@Thudothwacker. Anyway, the inhabitants were not FILIPINOS as the name "Filipino" comes from the King of Spain Felipe II. And also the expansion of the Catholic faith which made the Philipines different from Indonesia or Malaysia.

Also in Spain there different tribes (Iberians, Celts etc) before the Romans, but HISPANOS were the result of Roman colonisation...

[Thudothwacker]

@trokoro Myth? LOL Do your research first before you share your asininity. Here's a food of thought for your convoluted knowledge. Visaya was name after the empire. Pre-Spanish, the islands have an establish caste system, government and religious belief. Everyone can read and write. Now compare that to all European colonies except India, China and south east Asia.

[trokoro]

@Thudothwacker, Srivjayan is myth like Atlantis.

[Thudothwacker]

@trokoro Wrong! Pre-Spanish times the whole archipelago was part of the Srivijayan empire. Even Pigafeta was amazed to witness an advance political system.

[manfred6475]

filipino can adapt to any situation may it be language,culture,work even w/o education.a heart of mixed spanish,american,and 90% of a filipino.family -ties closed oriented which was obtain from chinese culture.mixed malay,chinese,thai,and other european race(small fraction).colonial mentality (likes foreign stuff) because locality sucks.race spreader.other negatives-much self oriented(eg:our politicians fight even to kill )

[meilerrene]

im a filipino here is an example ako i filipino hindi ako susuko at hindi ko papabayaan ang manga kaibigan ko kaibigan english mode i`m a filipino i will no give up and im not gonna leave my friends behind ok talagang filipino ako ok bye na

[kimpax]

that guy looks like kirk hammett

[akosigundam]

My thoughts exactly, sir.