This publication was produced by the Institute of National Language, the primary governmental body in the Philippines tasked with the development and propagation of the National Language in the post-independence era. Written by the Institute's Director, Jose Villa Panganiban, this linguistic report serves to formally catalog and analyze the deep and pervasive influence of the Spanish colonial language on Tagalog, which was the basis of the national language. The work lists approximately 5,000 basic Spanish loan-words found in Tagalog and other major Philippine languages, detailing how these foreign terms were adopted, including changes in spelling, stress, and semantic meaning. Published in 1961, it stands as a foundational academic resource that documents the lexical landscape of the burgeoning Filipino language and provides orthographic rules essential for standardizing the use of foreign loan-words in Tagalog written forms.
Spanish loan-words in the Tagalog language