Talk:List of loanwords in Tagalog

message: Muslim Filipinos use a lot of Arabic-derived words in daily conversations. Sometimes their pronunciation have even been altered to match the local dialect. Shouldn't these words also be included in the loan words? There are many of them, mostly religious in nature; one of the most common is probably "halal" to refer to food that is safe to eat.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.106.137.45 (talk) 11:24, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Arabic

message: These sections should be removed! The article is about loans.
Joemaza (talk) 17:37, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Cognates

message: Although Spanish and Tagalog are entirely different languages, they have become somewhat mutually intelligible, albeit with much difficulty on the Spanish-speakers' side.
Ridiculous. They are not mutually intelligible at all. I speak Tagalog at home and Spanish in school are they are most definitely not mutually intelligible in the slightest. They are from completely different language groups their syntax and verb systems are completely different—Spanish is a nominative-accusative language and Tagalog is ergative. Also, the claim that 40% of conversational Tagalog uses Spanish loanwords is questionable. It really depends on dialect, e.g. urban people tend to use more Spanish words and rural peoples use more classical ones. Where are the sources of this information?
I agree, unfortunately some Americans here in the U.S.A. believe that if a Filipino speaks Spanish, that’s just because it is the language in the Philippines, syntax and all. It’s as if we are not intelligent people, so if we speak it, it means we grew up with it.  Unfortunately it’s the ignorance of the Filipinos themselves that is propagating this stereotype.  One Filipino himself wrote about his experience in the blog, He shouted to his teacher:  "Esto, means this because that’s where the Tagalog word ‘ito’(which is a Malay word btw) came from, I know because I am from the Philippines." So his teacher said, no wonder. Now here is the problem, his Polish classmate would have asked his mother many times  "Co to jest?”, The word “to" being the Polish for esto, and jest the Polish word for Spanish es, but to his teacher, the Polish kid was learning Spanish having to use his intelligence.  I have seen Filipinos applying as Spanish speakers pag kinausap mo sa Kastila, anong ginagawa? Eh di nganga na lang, parang tanga  — Preceding unsigned comment added by BuhayPinoy (talk • contribs) 02:20, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Mutually intelligible?

message: Italian, French, German. There should be none or it should be said that the words came via English and Spanish. e.g. Pizza from English which in turn came from Italian. --Jondel 07:29, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed.--Jondel 00:25, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

text: The presence of so-called 'Portuguese loanwords' in the Tagalog language, such as linggo, bandila, kapitan, among others, are confirmed by their presence and cognates on Malay and other Borneic and Indonesian dialects. According to Salazar, Z., in his book The Malayan Connection, before the Spaniards came to the Philippines, Malay and the Philippine dialects has had the words 'bandila' (Portuguese, bandeira), Linggo (Portuguese, domingo), and Kapitan (Portuguese, capitan), thereby confirming these words as coming from Portuguese provenance. :) --User:Matthewprc 12:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  In Portuguese the word is capitão, not capitan.  And "domingo" is pronounced "domingu" so if i came from Portuguese, it should reflect that pronunciation, same with capitão. Mamoahina (talk) 00:46, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is no distinction between final o/u in prehispanic Tagalog, e.g., even Spanish 'espiritu' is sometimes pronounced 'espirito'. Whether Domingo is pronounced with a final o or u, both will still become Linggo in Tagalog. Also the nasal vowel sound in capitão does not exist in Tagalog so there is no reason for Tagalog speakers to retain the Portuguese pronunciation. It makes more sense for capitão to be mispronounced as kapitan. I am not saying that these words are indeed Portuguese (I have no data either way) but just saying that your counterexamples do not negate the statement in question either.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.106.137.45 (talk) 10:41, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

text:  Capitan or Kapitan is the Portuguese-origin loan word in many Indian languages such as Malayalam, Tamil, and Hindi (Kaptan) too. --Sahrudayan (talk) 09:25, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Portuguese

message: There is a dictionary for filipino, maybe we should work on it.--Jondel 06:28, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikidictionary

message: I firmly believe that the Tagalog toyo is much more closer to the Japanese touyo, which is soy sauce. Plus, one needs to cite reputable references regarding cat meat in pao buns.
Ojtibi (talk) 15:10, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Japanese (Nihonggo) and Miscellaneous Orgins

message: What's with the Italian, French, Russian and German loanwords, all of them are brands not loanwords and official words of the Tagalog language. That person who did those edits must get a life. - User:JohnMarcelo  —Preceding undated comment added 17:38, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Useless edits

message: What do the syllables of "Din Tiak" mean? Hongthay (talk) 13:06, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intsík (Fukien Chinese: Din Tiak) 

message: Why isn't the obvious SALAMAT included under Arabic?  And no mention of manong/manoy/mano & its female counterpart.  Mamoahina (talk) 00:57, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thank You & other words

message: I noticed "Kuya (哥哥; Cantonese: ko–ko; Hokkien: keh–ya) – Eldest brother." If you compare the Tagalog word kaka for older brother, it seems closer to structure in Mandarin, gege than Hokkien, keh-ya. Just asking if that is valid, though I think 哥哥 is itself borrowed from another language from a former neighboring culture, adopted to Mandarin. I'm no expert in linguistics but just a theory, could kuya be related to the word 舅仔 which refers to the wife's brother or is the pronunciation too off to be the actual etymology of kuya? I know Southern dialects tend to affix 阿- in names, which explains ate but the 仔 ending corresponds to the noun placeholder of Mandarin Chinese, 子. 
I also tried studying Arabic (though I don't claim to have a degree on Linguistics) but question, is the word for flesh/ meat in Arabic , lahm related to laman in Tagalog? Also, daan, i think for way? (there's more i think, just no reliable sources to cite. Sorry) Also, for Persian, isn't the word for tea originally Chinese (tea from Hokkien, while cha from Mandarin, Cantonese and possibly other dialects in China) and the word chai is also used in Arabic? So why categorize under Persian alone? 
There is also another dialect in Fujian Province: Hok-ciu or Foochow. Mother is 依奶 which is pronounced approximately i-ne while if you read it in Mandarin, yi-nai. (sorry for the lack of tones and unorthodox romanization for all) Coincidence? Is it also a borrowing or false cognates?
Ugar001 (talk) 18:17, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello, it's been 5 years but anyways I'd like to clarify. I'm a chinese-filipino from a family that still speaks philippine hokkien. "Kuya" is most probably from "哥兄(ko-hiaⁿ)". We no longer say it this way in contemporary philippine hokkien but instead we say "阿兄(a-hiaⁿ)" which we commonly spell and pronounce in filipino orthography as "ahiya/ahia" or "aya". This is because we want to differentiate birth order. 阿 (a) refers to the eldest because we can also call other brothers like dihia, sahia, etc. if we have a lot of older brothers from ourselves but we no longer use 哥(ko) very much or at least I don't hear it at all anymore but I assume it was common like a century or decades ago since there are many old chinese-filipino family names that are appended with the -ko suffix or something. Since we still use the 兄(hiaⁿ) part from "阿兄(a-hiaⁿ)" which we pronounce like "hiya/hia" from ahiya and this could be sometimes shortened to say like "aya" when said fast, I think "kuya" is most probably from "哥兄(ko-hia)" especially when pronounced fast in a very filipino way of speaking and like all filipinos, we tend to interchange O and U just like I and E in pronunciation due to prehispanic baybayin only containing 3 vowels where O/U and E/I is merged and interchangeable.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mlgc1998 (talk • contribs) 18:24, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarifications 

message: Someone really needs to edit the Chamorro section: more than a few of the words listed are simply Spanish words that Chamorro and Tagalog happened to borrow:
Abogado/Abugadu (Spanish, abogado)
Ágila/Agila (Spanish, águila)
Alambre/Alamle (Spanish, alambre)
Alkalde/Atkadi (Spanish, alcalde)
Alpombra/Atformbra (Spanish, alfombra)
Apelyido/Apiyidu ((Spanish, apellido)
Apurá/Apura (Spanish, apura)
Areglado/Areklao (Spanish, arreglado)
Armas/atmas (Spanish, armas)
Asukal/Asukat (Spanish, azucar)
Ayuno/Ayunu (Spanish, Ayuno)
Baka/Baka (Spanish, vaca)
Bangko/Banko (Spanish, banco)
Bastón/Baston (Spanish, bastón)
Mantikilya/Mantikiya (Spanish, mantequilla)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.70.28.216 (talk) 12:44, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish origin of "Chamorro cognates" 

message: This article needs to be checked by an expert in Tagalog. It also needs to be sourced from research papers, books, and documentaries for increased reliability, not just bare URLs. But if I have the time, I would do help in the expansion and addition of appropriate inline citations or footnotes.
Nangangailangan ang artikulong ito ng tulong mula sa eksperto ng wikang Tagalog. Kailangan ring dagdagan ng mga sanggunian gaya ng pananaliksik, aklat, at dokumentaryo para mas maging maaasahan, hindi basta mga websayt o "bare URL" lamang. Tutulong din ako sa pagpapalawak at pagdagdag ng mga inline citations o footnotes kapag may oras ako.
Pcbyed (talk) 20:25, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs an expert 

message: 1.:Dubious. "Katarungan" is a proof of the existence of a Filipino language distinct from Tagalog, since it is not a Tagalog word but is sourced from the Cebuano word tarong, which means straight. In context, tarong has been made to mean to straighten someone up i.e., punish to inflict justice. The use of the word katarungan in the Filipino language is one of the proofs that Filipino is not Tagalog; Academicians in Filipino, particularly from the University of the Philippines, stress that as a national language, Filipino continues and ought to use and incorporate words from various languages of the Filipinos to become a true national language of the Filipino people.  However, regionalistic politicians, their supporters (such as Cebuano columnist Bobit Avila, as exemplified by his opinion article), and some foreign linguists (who, like the American and Spanish historians and by being foreign, have a different view of Philippine phenomena and events and therefore have a tendency to be biased against the ideas of the Filipino people having their own aspirations, civilization, and unique language; see Wenceslao Retana and Fray Miguel Lucio y Bustamante) such as Firth McEachern still tend to equate the one with the other See also Filipino vs. Tagalog.
This is NOT my comment; Only moved another person's comment to here. SomeRandomPasserby (talk) 07:48, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

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message: In the section about loanwords from Spanish, some of the "native" Tagalog equivalents were in fact not Tagalog but were neologisms invented by Del Rosario for the creation of the "Wikang Pilipino". I suggest anyone here to stop adding such non-Tagalog neologisms since they really didn't come from the native vocabulary (they were only invented for the creation of the "Wikang Pilipino" which was already defunct ever since the establishment of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino in 1991"). Plus, before 1991, the neologisms weren't even approved. According to Director Pineda about why INL (Institute of National Language) didn't stamp its approval on the book:
The Institute of National Language reserves the right to approve the book as to linguistic matters involved therein until after a thorough rediscussion and reevaluation as herein suggested. Let it be understood, however, that the Lupon sa Agham may continue to circulate the book without official sanction. In this way, the newly coined scientific and technical terms will be given a fair chance to get themselves 'accepted in the competition of the market'. Suffice it to say that while the Institute appreciates in its totality the sincere endeavors of the Lupon sa Agham, the former asserts that the Lupon's language model for the post part is at war with the language model of the Institute of National Language.
Since this page only discusses the Tagalog language and not the neologisms present in the "Maugnayin" book that were suggested to enrich the defunct Pilipino language, I would advise everyone to REFRAIN from adding such translations in the "Native Equivalent" columns of the pages. If you can't help it, at least tag it as a "neologism", specifying that its use is not widespread and has yet to gain acceptance because of the fact that it is an invented word. Examples of such words include haynayan, bilnuran and danumsigwasan. Stricnina (talk) 20:07, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the use of neologisms from Del Rosario's "Maugnayin" 

message: Hello everyone, and especially to the notable users who have commented here: Paul Christian B. Yang-ed, JohnMarcelo, Kasumi-genx, Jondel, Joemaza, Akuindo, Marc87, Cyrus noto3at bulaga and many others. For a long time I have limited myself on editing the Spanish and Sanskrit section of this Wikipedia page and with the coming of my own copy of the book Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates by Jean-Paul Potet, I am thinking of going outside of my comfortable zone and clean the other sections, possibly with more references. In particular:
* For the Malay section, I want to remove the cognates and add the words with the highest probability of being loanwords in Tagalog (and rename the whole section as Malay loanwords and not about cognates). In order to do this, aside from the book, I am also going to check the online Austronesian Comparative Dictionary to delete entries with reconstructed pan-Austronesian roots. For example, the -hati words like dalamhati, pighati and luwalhati and other compound words like batobalani will be considered loanwords because many sources cite them as such but many of the cognates analyzed in the Austronesian Comparative Dictionary and Potet's book will be removed from the Malay loanwords section.
* Under the Malay section, I want to add a subsection dedicated to Sanskrit loanwords that have been adopted to Tagalog with Malay as intermediary.
* Since many of the Nahuatl words have been adopted by Tagalog/Filipino with Spanish (or specifically the Mexican Spanish variant) as the intermediary language, I ask permission for the section about the Nahuatlismos to be moved under the Spanish section.
* For the Spanish section, I think it is time to impose certain restraints on what kind of words to be added in the tables and my primary reason for this is because there are just so many of them (many books acknowledged the overwhelming quantities of them like in the case of books written by Antonio Quilis and Jean Paul Potet; there's even an entire book dedicated just for the Spanish loanwords, namely Mga hispanismo sa Filipino : batay sa komunikasyong pangmadla ng Filipinas : pag-aaral lingguwistiko by Teresita Alcantara). It is time to classify them and just focus on some of the interesting loanwords. For example, in Potet's book, he only focused on the loanwords which have undergone interesting transformations in phonetics upon adoption into Tagalog like pulubi and kalatas. I on the other hand arbitrarily chose to create subsections for the loanwords with shared characteristics i.e. Spanish pluralized nouns adopted into Tagalog and Spanish verbs with the /r/ phoneme dropped upon adoption into Tagalog. I might add more subsections in the future. EDIT: For the Greek, Latin and Hebrew subsections under Spanish, I am thinking of removing them as they are not restricting enough as subsection categories (especially Latin because majority of Spanish words ultimately came from Latin). The whole purpose of the subsections under Spanish from now on is to restrict the quantity of the Spanish loanwords being added here. There is no point listing every single one of these loanwords here.
** My suggestion for the Spanish section: just remove the main table of Spanish loanwords and focus on making smaller subsections dedicated to particular loanwords with shared characteristics. I am asking permission to remove the main table once and for all.
* I will also add a single section dedicated for words borrowed from the other Philippine languages such as Cebuano, Ilocano, Kapampangan, etc. (I'll do this regardless once I am armed with the necessary references).
* The other sections require a major cleanup, like in the case of English, Chinese, Tamil, Arabic and Persian, etc. For the Chinese section, I'd like to make a distinction for the recent loanwords cited by Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog by Gloria Chan-Yap because according to Potet, "many are only used by the Chinese settled in the Philippines, and are no more Tagalog than the names of French dishes in posh Makati restaurants". I am thinking of removing them if they do not appear in major dictionaries like the online KWF dictionary.
As I edit the page, I'll do my best to refer to as many reputable sources as possible, focusing primarily on books, articles from academic journals, etc.
Stricnina (talk) 21:32, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to radically change this Wikipedia page 

message: Hello I'm a chinese-filipino from a family that still speaks philippine hokkien. I'd like to point out that "Yasuwi" recorded under japanese loanwords is more probably of chinese hokkien origin. I have not heard this "Yasuwi" word used around the country that is supposed to mean sexually attractive as a slang but what I have often heard is the philippine hokkien expression "野媠(iá-súi)" which we do pronounce exactly like "yasuwi" if we tried to spell it in filipino orthography and it literally means "very/so pretty". I don't know which part of the country has decided to put some sort of sexual connotation slang on a word as "yasuwi" but I'm assuming if someone in some part of our country has done so enough that it has become some form of slang word somewhere, I would think it is highly likely "yasuwi" comes from hokkien rather than japanese 暑い (atsui) which sounds a little bit farther and the meaning recorded for that supposedly even refers to the weather more. -Mlgc1998 (talk) 17:53, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no expertise on the origins of this Tagalog word, but know Japanese. 暑い (atsui) does have a sexual sense. However, there is another Japanese word that seems at least as likely to be a source for Tagalog yasuwi, if it is borrowed from Japanese. There is a verb yasui (stem yasu-) meaning "cheap, easy", which is used to describe a woman who is easily persuaded to have sex.Bill (talk) 20:52, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Supposed Japanese Yasuwi word is probably Hokkien 

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message: I would like to suggest on this point being a stretch. The Spa. "vaho" is now commonly translated into "whiff" or "vapour." Even if it was said as "odor," it is in a positive manner rather than negative. As I learnt, "baho" also exists in Waray-Waray and in Malay. The ACD states that this is possible, considering Mal. "bau" originated from a doublet of the main attester, PAN "*bahuq", being "*bahu".
Not only this, but numerous other words here that could also pass as PAN-based words. That is truly what stinks in this article.
SpinachMaid (talk) 05:14, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. Another flaw is that silent "H" in Spanish never appears as /h/ in loans in Tagalog and other Ph languages. Feel free to remove the item. Most etymologies here are taken from Potet (2016) who has mistakenly ascribed a number of inherited PAN words to borrowing from Spanish or Sanskrit. Blust's ACD is definitely a more reliable source. If you find more stuff, please specify and bring it to the talk page. –Austronesier (talk) 09:40, 15 October 2019 (UTC)

text: Will gladly do. Thank you so much for your input as well; I wouldn't have guessed any other way :) SpinachMaid (talk) 06:00, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "baho" from Spa. from sense "whiff, odor" 

message: This article is long and wordy, but is it possible to add phonetics? This is a language page, and so far barely any pronunciation change has been reflected, but rather, spelling. Proposal to add phonetics to anything but the semantics section [1.5], as that does deal with meaning rather than phonology. This can also extend to Section 1.4 and 1.6-8, but the latter does include a pronunciation change that is due to be shown. Thank you for your consideration and time :) -SpinachMaid (talk) 06:16, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding phonology to words listed 

message: The immediate source of Tagalog patatas is no doubt Spanish, but the Spanish word is itself borrowed from Taino, the indigenous language of the island of Hispaniola, now shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.Bill (talk) 20:57, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: True, but I guess it's alright to leave at that; why should we create another section for just one word? SpinachMaid (talk) 05:33, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Potato

message: This may be viable, seeing that 'dasal' is pronounced like 'rezar' with a shift from coda /r/ to /l/ (compare: /dɑ.ˈsɑl/, /ɾe.ˈsɑl/), but how far can this really go? It is common knowledge that in Tagalog /d/ becomes /ɾ/ in between vowels (I only remember the term starts with an 'l'), but the verb syntax would presume it to stay at /d/, being said as 'magdasal' /ˈmɑg.dɑ.ˌsɑl/. It would never be
'marasal' /ˈmɑ.ɾɑ.ˌsɑl/ as that would apply to adjectives. Or if I am just babbling like an idiot here... SpinachMaid (talk) 05:46, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  'dasal' from Sp. 'rezar' 

message: Add history section:
To add the context to this article, insert brief explanation of how loanwords transmitted directly and through intermediary foreign languages. Retain the term "influence" in the section headings while retaining the loandowrd in the namespace. Influences via intermediaries must be recorded as subsection within the higher language group. Wikipedia convention is to add the context, place the context within the context, hence headings and subheadings should be in line with that historic context of key drivers, enablers, facilitators of the transmission of loanwords.
Oceanic silk route was the single largest enabler of transmission of loandowrds in Philippines. The greatest influencers on transmission of loandowrds  has been 2 eras of 
I. Precolonial Indianised Polities of southeast asia, add images of indosphere
II. Colonial era: if possible also source and add images of influence/colonised global map of those colonisers to show intermediary transmissions e.g. from south americans to filipinos. , Explain large scale and wide spread pan philippines (at least individually across at least one of the LVM - Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao) waves of incoming migration during respective eras, discern the minor localized migration e.g. early formosa/chinese traders to pangasinan, etc and accord those lower due weight in terms of length of  text and the tone of phrasing in the article. 
A. Pre-historic influences:
Couple of sentences on languages and "likely foreign influences" on the earliest known native people and language of filipinos. Chinese arrived during this era but had lesser influence as polity were not sinocised/chineised but indiaised at local/barangay and regional hierarchy, include chinese language in under heading.  
B. Indianized polities's influence
Earliest known written document found in Philippines is Indianised Hindu docuemnt laguna copper inscription. Southeast Asia was under the "mandalas" of Indianised Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms (Srivijaya and Madjapahit) under whom a network of Indianised barangay-based polities evolved (barangay was not a geo specific terms, people of different barangay/clan association reporting to different head/pun could live in same geo, then spanish eliminated it and made barangay geo specific). During this era the language and religion of the indianised court and govt were sanskritised and Hindu Buddhist often under the guidance of brahmin/scholars/priests brought from india numerous among them were tmails.Except mountain/igorot and negrito types native tribes rest are from malay people fleeing from defeated srivijaya and madjapahit kingdoms in Indonesia and Borneo to Panay, Visayas/cebu, Mindanao. 
C. Colonial influence
Subsections in the Chronological order of colonization: Spanish, Japanese, and English.
D. Other influences: 
Rest of the influences are either 
D1. arrived in Philippines "during" those two eras I and II above,
D1.A.  intermediary effect i.e. arrived via Indian&IndianisedMalay or colonial languages e.g. Arabic via Indian traders initially and later via Arabs themselves with the advancement in bigger boat building and sailing/navigation techniques.
D1.B. intervening impact i.e. any loanwords that arrived during Indianised polities era even though did not arrive via Indian or malay languages still had direct or indirect influence of Indian culture (and its subsidiary malay), similarly colonial languages had intervening influence which resulted in how the loanwords are adopted with different spelling or within a certain context of usage with specific/limited/expanded meaning compared to the language of origin. 
D2. they are relatively minor in terms of quantum of words, frequency of their use and their geological spread within Philippines
Initially create this section here. Perhaps some of it could be later migrated to "languages of Philippines" namespace. better to place here initially as this is as is relatively lower traffic and lower visibility article compared to "languages of Philippines". Finetune here, then transmit this concept to other articles related to Filipino, Malay, Indonesian language family. I have placed this here becasue not every oen reads talkpage, secondly this serves as a more potent encouragement for creation of history section. Thanks.
58.182.176.169 (talk) 19:21, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You inserted too much WP:UNDUE information and WP:NPOV issues. Reverted the article back to its previous state before the heavy re-organization. Stricnina (talk) 10:32, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

text: No worries about removing the unsourced items for now at least. Can be re-added later with citations and rephrasing as appropriate. At last you/other editors are aware of this suggestion and its rationale. Unfortunately, I have not had the time to find citations yet, will do so later. Meanwhile, either use the TOC structure and categorisation as per my earlier edit, or alternatively we could do it later once we have added sourced history/context to each language section. Meanwhile please consider readding some of the sectional "see also" to enricht he text. I have provided detailed response here. Thanks. 58.182.176.169 (talk) 22:32, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  User talk:58.182.176.169, you really need to take seriously your violations of WP:NPOV. Your initial accusations of supposed "Proud to be Catholic Pinoy" bias are totally unwarranted and your whole re-organizing of the article is just you injecting your own POV into a completely neutral article. I'm not even going to bother with your "cultural genocide" and "historical amnesia" rants, I have no time to deal with unsourced and non-NPOV nonsense. It appears you are bothered with Spanish and English being at the top, but the only thing I can say to possibly justify this is that it is nothing but a result of an objective observation that there are literally more Spanish loanwords (probably also English but debatable) in Tagalog, and thus they are being treated here with the attention they deserve. It is not undue weight. And I am just scratching the surface of the many criticisms I have regarding whatever your plan is, but I believe other users in your talk page have already said what I wanted to say in the first place. Avoid your own biases and stick to the WP:BESTSOURCES. Also, read the Wikipedia guidelines as many fellow editors have already told you. Stricnina (talk) 22:46, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

text:  Also, I beg you to stop with the unnecessary historical excursus and detailed information like what you did with the Laguna Copperplate Inscription (which is bordering at WP:IRRELEVANT at worse). The history of the Philippines is already dealt in so many Wikipedia articles already and whatever historical information you are going to add here, they should be only used as explanations to the loanwords here. The rest of the unnecessary information should be spinned off and relocated to the more relevant Wikipedia articles. Stricnina (talk) 22:56, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

text: I had already agrees to leave out anything unsoruced, because I had planned to find sources but could not find time to obtain sources. Hence, no further discussion was warranted really. Apologies, if you felt hurt, it was not my intention. I have amicably resolved all issues with anyone who left message on my talkpage. All editors have similar current and archived messages on their talkpage. We must not spin everything to other articles, it deprives articles of context. Wikipedia best practices mandate the inclusion of "context", "self descriptive headings", articles must be standalone and encyclopedic (not the index of non-standalone academic/journal articles). Since I had already agreed to the status quo "for now", hence some of the content and tone of your reply was not warranted. I have left a detailed message on your talkpage. Multiple valid ways to organise the TOC, I am okay with either while there is status quo, for now you can retain it the way you like it. Thank you. 58.182.176.169 (talk) 01:17, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  User talk:58.182.176.169 Sorry if you are getting agitated and thus resorting to projecting or writing long blocks of texts, but the WP:IRRELEVANT historical excursus and information will still be removed as I have explained earlier. Read the basic Wikipedia guidelines for more details. Also, if you keep adding non-NPOV and especially un-researched and unsourced information, they will be removed. Other users have already warned you. This is more for your sake. Stricnina (talk) 04:47, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add context and history, then hierarchise and rephrase ll section headings accordingly 

message: Tamil section is unsourced, with no context/history provided, Please take a look at these sources to start with. 
* Tim Hoogervorst, 2005, is one of the most recent publication Detecting pre-modern lexical influence from South India in Maritime Southeast Asia
* Celine W M Arokiaswamy, 2000, Tamil influences in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines (on google book), Hoogervorst mentions Arokiaswamy too.
I have put this on my to do list, I will help out later which might be a while. Meanwhile please use the above, as you deem fit, to address the citation issue, etc. Thanks. 58.182.176.169 (talk) 22:32, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced Tamil section

message: I sometimes stumble upon this list and I'm seeing problems with style. There’s a whole lot of overcapitalization (compare tables in similar lists of loanwords), and where the meaning is of an animal or plant, both the common and scientific names appear where it is better to mention and/of link to just the common name where possible.  Time for a cleanup? TagaSanPedroAko (talk) 06:03, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tables 

message: Trash in Spanish. Jidanni (talk) 11:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  basura 

message: 伸牙/chûn-khì should use the above. Jidanni (talk) 12:26, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  齒 

message: When you say "ultimately from Arabic الخُرْشُوف" etc. be sure to include some romaniztion, so we can read their sounds. Jidanni (talk) 12:28, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic letters 

message: Though the words in this section have a source (Chan-Yap, 1980), some of these have debatable origin. One example is katay, which may come from Proto-Austronesian instead. Words like patay, bitay and atay come from PAN *-aCay, which may also be the source of katay. Another example is lawlaw, which may come from Hokkien 落落 (to fall) instead of 老. Playervier (talk) 14:06, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hokkien Loanwords source 

message: Is there anyone who can look or refer to why the word Haba is said to be a loanword from Japanese?
--Shimin_Ufesoj (🦜) 12:19, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the word Haba is a loanword from Japanese?