is it filipino or philipino? and if it's filipino why?
2007-02-13 12:08:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Philippines
Its Filipino because our country was basically named after a spanish prince, fillip II, and I think it turned as "Philippines" when we were colonized by the Americans after our spanish era...
2007-02-13 23:27:13 · answer #1 · answered by Owen Geiscelle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Filipino...
2007-02-13 23:43:54 · answer #2 · answered by leann_hp28 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contrary to Lousechi, Philippines came from the name of prince Philip II not Filip, there's no such spanish name as Filip... it's Felipe in spanish for Philip. But in history books, the prince's name that time was written as Philip, that was during the American occupation in the Philippines. Anyway, Philippines was named after that prince and we were referred to as Philipinos in english or Pilipino in Tagalog. But during the 80's I think, the DECS (department of education, culture and sports) revised our alphabet to better cope with our present language which has so many borrowed foreign words which don't have direct translation such as french fries... we don't know how else to call it. So instead of the old alphabet "a-ba-ka..." they modified it to modern Filipino alphabet "a-b-c... n-ng..." and since then they started using F for filipinos... which I DONT KNOW WHY cuz philipinos makes more sense to me.
2007-02-14 20:32:11 · answer #3 · answered by gameplan_xtreme 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Filipino are the people and there is no philipino
2007-02-14 11:39:22 · answer #4 · answered by jett 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
originally Filipino but because of the spelling of the country (Philippines) where Filipinos live, it has been spelled as Philippino in many books.
Real Filipinos spell their nationality as FILIPINO. Some foreigners would spell it like PHILIPPINO but that is not generally accepted here...
2007-02-14 18:14:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
filipino is the subject and the person form the philippines Pilipino can be a word also for a person form the philippines.. philipino the word never existed....
2007-02-13 22:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by laviet09 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Filipino when reffering to a person/people
2007-02-13 17:29:20 · answer #7 · answered by trykindness 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Filipino for the citizen of the Philippines. (- -,)
2007-02-13 18:15:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its filipino.. and it is filipino because we're filipino and we live in the philippines?.. that doesnt even make any sense..lmao
2007-02-14 15:32:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Filipino.
The Spanish name of the Philippines is "Las Islas Filipinas," named after King Felipe II of Spain. Ergo, it should be "F" & not Ph.
2007-02-14 02:31:09 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋