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Tagalog loanwords
The Tagalog language, due to extensive contacts with outsiders and foreigners, has developed a unique vocabulary utilizing words from its own Austronesian roots and also from other foreign languages. According to the linguistic expert Jose Villa Panganiban, "of the 30,000 root words in the Tagalog language, there are 5,000 from Spanish, 3,200 from Malay, 1,500 from both Min Nan and Yueh Chinese dialects, 1,500 from English, 300 from Sanskrit, 200 from Arabic, and a few hundred altogether from Mexican, Persian, Japanese, and other languages".
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