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History of Filipino Language
History of Filipino Language
Language
When the Spanish arrived in the 1500s, they found a region
dominated by three main languages – Tagalog, Ilocano, and
Visayan. These three are distinct languages but have enough in
common that almost everyone in the country spoke at least two
of them, and thus communication was very easy.
TAGALOG(1937)
-PILIPINO(1959) -
FILIPINO(1987)