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What percentage of people use Taglish regularly?
How many people speak pure Tagalog in everyday life?
What percentage of people use Taglish regularly?
How many people speak pure Tagalog in everyday life?
How many people speak pure Tagalog in everyday life?
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Our country is mainly divided into 3 island groups.. LUZON, VISAYAS & MINDANAO. Most of tagalog speakers are from LUZON. So basically, i think 30% of the populations are pure or native tagalog speakers though all of us understand and can speak it as well. Most of the people from VISAYAS & MINDANAO don't usually speak in tagalog because they have their our own dialect there. However, as I have observed most of the professionals used taglish or their own dialect mixed with english since some of the words are better express in english.
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- Country or region Philippines
@irusia One of my professors from graduate school told us that Tagalog is not an intellectual language because there are many foreign words that do not have an equivalent in Tagalog. Personally, I'm not very good at speaking it because I have been living away from Manila for a long time. ^^
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That's quite hard to measure since most Filipinos speak Filipino which is based on Tagalog and many Filipinos habe a dialect and also speaks the English language. One may speak Taglish and one may speak Ilocano and English. Generally, though Filipinos have dialects, Taglish may be widespread and therefore hard to measure due to Filipinos being bilinguals or polygots.
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- Country or region Philippines
I think that you're referring to Filipino, because Tagalog is a language mostly used in Luzon. Filipino is the national language and includes words from the different Philippine languages (not dialects), Spanish and English are included as well. Though the two terms are interchanged frequently.
It's hard to explain it in numbers since Filipino has English loan words, but in the case of Filipino-English code switching. I assume that young adults who live in the city and are of the middle or upper class speak Taglish regularly as they are more exposed to English media.
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@imShe I know that there are other languages.
Probably you misunderstood my question.
I asked how many native Tagalog speakers speak pure Tagalog without mixing it with English.
Probably you misunderstood my question.
I asked how many native Tagalog speakers speak pure Tagalog without mixing it with English.
- Country or region Ukraine
@phcadano041901 I asked about native Tagalog speakers, not about speakers of other languages. (Though it would be also interesting to know how many Cebuano, Ilocano speakers and others do not mix their native languages with English or Tagalog).
- Country or region Ukraine
- Country or region Ukraine
@parkergirl0817 So new words and equivalents are not created in order to express foreign borrowings? In some countries this is a successful language planning aimed at replacing foreign words with newly created native words.
- Country or region Philippines
@irusia Generally, yes. But it really depends, even in the provinces there are a number of people who use Taglish as well.
If you're interested you can read about the "conyo" stereotype associated with rich Filipinos, wherein Taglish is a huge factor. I think there are academic articles on it if you search "conyo pdf"on google.
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- Country or region Philippines
our national language is Filipino. But Tagalog is widely used in our country since it's easier to understand. most especially to the younger generation. if you want to know the percentage of those who speaks native Filipino- maybe less than half or more. Filipino is widely use in Luzon before, during our heroes time or olden time. now a days---usually Filipino will be used in classroom settings (the proper use--grammar and all) but in every day conversations if not every dialect, some are mix with English. may it be Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilonggo and more. Most especially to the younger generation. These generation are very inventive with words just for fun and sometimes you will just woke up using those words as well because of media influence.
sometimes as well those influential celebrities or person in our country contribute some/new words... That's why, our professor told us that Filipino language is dying in this generation because Filipinos tend to mix or make there own words or borrow other languages and because of these our own language is "less use' and usually "forgotten"
Taglish is widely use, if not every single soul in our country then "most" used this or understand Taglish.
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a whole lot of people use Taglish and only a very few can speak pure Tagalog
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Actually we speak tagalog in everyday life. We are using english in schools only. And if you are with your naughty friends speaking english you have to ride them.
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- Country or region Philippines
we don't speak pure Tagalog......we speak Tagalog Spanish everyday!!maybe some doesn't notice it
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I think seeing a pure Tagalog speaker is ultra rare. There are tons of borrowed words that are being used every day like T.V. which in Tagalog (it sounds Spanish though) Telebisyon, and cellphone which in Tagalog should be telepono. As long as people use even just a few borrowed words in daily conversations, I don't think they would be considered as PURE Tagalog speakers. I hope this helped answer your question.
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@criselescano Borrowed words are a part of the language. By "pure Tagalog" I mean "not mixed chaotically with English", but borrowings which have already become part of the language are ok.
- Country or region Philippines
@irusia well, if you'd put it that way, I guess majority of older people around the age of 65 or older who live in the central part of Luzon especially around Bulacan, Metro Manila, and Rizal, do speak pure Tagalog in their every day living. As for the younger ones, it'll be quite impossible to just use Tagalog since in most schools, universities, and even workplaces, English is the common medium of instruction.
I only made a rough estimate with the age range, btw.
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