Phillipenes and Filipino?

Question

why is it that the name of the counrty is spelled differently than when you spell the name of the language or nationallity?

sorry about spelling it wrong! I'm not very good at spelling names of countries!

Answer 1

Our country's name is spelled PHILIPPINES. The people are called Filipinos. Our language is PILIPINO.

It is the Americans who called las Islas Filipinas as Philippine Islands, thus, Americanizing the name.

Pilipino is how we must call the language because there is no letter "F" in the local alphabet. The "F" in Filipino is from our original country name in Spanish. We were given that Spanish name because we were ruled by Spain for 300 years.

Answer 2

In Filipino: Republica Ng Pilipinas.
In Spanish: República de las Filipinas.
In English: Republic of the Philippines.
The nation is named after King of Spain:
In Filipino: Philip II
In Spanish: Felipe II
In English: Phillip II

If you notice the F is present in the Spanish form and the P is present in the Filipino form and English form. Until the US occupation in 1898/1899, the language in the Philippines was Spanish and they spelled the name of the country with the F. The Americans came and used a P. A new congress formed, a revloulationary congress aimed at uniting the people and evicting the Americans at Barasoain church, and they also adapted Spanish Language and even wrote the Constitution in Spanish, with F for the name of the country.

About in 1937, Quezon decided to proclaim that the nation should have a truly indigenous national language. Tagalog was taken as the base and this became official in 1946 after WWII. Until the early 1960's Tagalog was the official language. Tagalog doe not have an f, c, q, x or z. So P took over with the Tagalog and English usage from 1946 until the 1960's when the language offical title was changed to Pilipino and not Tagalog to be more inclusive and to allow the use of some English and Spanish words. In the 70's and 80s efforts changed the official language to Filipino with the inclusion of the f, c, q, x, and z into the Filipino language, and the adding of the words ng and n with ~ (but that's rare as the country primarily uses english based keyboards as I am).

Filipino is a mix of many languages based on Tagalog, and including Spanish and English elements and words. Sort of a Tagalog plus. You could say that Tagalog is to Filipino as English is to American.

Philippines is called Filipinas. The Philippines is named after King Philip (English) or Felipe (Castillian). However, Tagalog did not have an F in the orginal alphabet. The F did not get added until the 1970s. At that time the official language was Pilipino (a version of Tagalog). The name of the langugage was changed to Filipino to represent the spanish influences in the country. Part of the reason for adding the f and changing from Pilipino to Filipino, notice the national name is still Pilipinas, was to recognize the contributions of Spain to the language of nation, and to distinguish the new 28 letter Filipino alphabet from the older Pilipino version.

Answer 3

The Philippines is named after King Philip of Spain. Filipinos got its name from the Spanish word Filipinas. As we all know, if there are 2 or more Filipinas, the usual noun for that is Filipinos and can also be spelled as Filipinoes. Pilipino our so-called National Language but it was changed to Filipino Language wherein you can spell the word as ease unlike in the former Pilipino Language, you can translate a particular language into another word, like University. Before, in Pilipino or Tagalog language, it is "Pamantasan". But in Filipino Language, it means "Unibersidad". Another one is "participation". In Pilipino, it is called pagsali, paglahok, pag-anib. But in Filipino language, it is simply "partisipasyon".
I hope you understand my explanation here. Have a nice day :)

Answer 4

By the mid-to-late sixteenth century, the archipelago was included in the Spanish East Indies. The Spaniards called the islands Filipinas (Philippines) in honor of King Philip II of Spain. During the 333 years of Spanish rule, through New Spain (Mexico), the term Filipino referred to the Spaniards who were born in the archipelago.

Answer 5

chinese language human beings oftentimes have a lighter complexion than maximum filipinos and that they've smaller eyes. my mom is a million/2 Filipino and a million/2 chinese language so we rejoice the two January a million New 3 hundred and sixty 5 days and the chinese language New 3 hundred and sixty 5 days too. we've diverse rituals whilst it comprises our deceased kin, as we persist with the chinese language custom whilst it comprises that. i think of Filipinos and chinese language are comparable in numerous tactics already in view that various chinese language human beings have been residing there interior the Philippines for a collectively as now. chinese language human beings nonetheless (in keeping with my pals' families) have greater stricter ideals whilst it comprises marriage, and partying, yet apart from that, i do no longer think of there is various different alterations. i'm fantastically plenty a fusion of the two cultures too! =)

Answer 6

This is actually how you spell it, Philippines. Now, the language which is called Pilipino is just being derived from it.

Just like Spain. Their language is Spanish.

Answer 7

the original name of the country was las islas filipinas. the spanish colonizers named it after their king Felipe II de Habsburgo