Eugene Alvin Villar on Nostr: I love how the logo of the recent Manila Spanish Film Festival organized by the ...

I love how the logo of the recent Manila Spanish Film Festival organized by the #InstitutoCervantes leans into how #Tagalog has nearly ⅓ of its vocabulary coming from Spanish, including the key word “pelikula” from “película”. Even the other “film” loanword “sine” comes from “cine”. (Interestingly, the word “sinehan”, for “theater” or “movie house” combines the Spanish loanword with the locative Tagalog suffix “-an”.)

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