here is a few Filipino words that sounds Italian
- presidente
- responsabile
- governatore
- mondo
- importante
- casa
- Kabayo
- Dio
- carne
- oras
- sapone
- libro
- tazza
- soldato
- pantaloni
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Philippian Isles of Austronesians (Las Isles Filipinas)
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Jan 17, 2020 1:18 am
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Jan 17, 2020 8:11 pm
you should try to learn read and speak a few tagalog sentences. my observations is that Latin-speakers have an easy time speaking Austronesian languages. 
Oct 07, 2020 9:49 pm
Oct 08, 2020 2:44 am
@rambo. Filipino and Philippine languages are actually difficult to learn, the verbal system is one of the most complicated, if not the most complicated of all Asian languages. That's like saying Japanese is easy simply because it is staccatto and syllabic like Filipino is.
It is true that the pronunciation is easy. But for a language with easy grammar and pronunciation, Malay or Indonesian is probably the way to go.
Italian language probably sounds the best to me, I like the flow, the staccatto and the lilting melodic rhythm it has.
Jan 17, 2020 1:58 am
interesting I had no idea that some Filipino words sound Italian to you
Jan 17, 2020 3:49 am
I heard from some spanish speakers that they can actually understand a lot of spoken Italian language... meaning i guess that the two languages may be mutually intelligible to a certain degree??
..but i am not an expert in romance languages
Jan 18, 2020 9:39 pm
@elhartista
Spanish have burrowed words from the Italian language. Italian and Spanish have around 82% lexical similarity.
Antartico (Antarctic) — Italian
Antártico (Antarctic) — Spanish
Artico (Arctic) — Italian
Ártico (Arctic) — Spanish
Atlantico (Atlantic) — Italian
Atlántico (Atlantic) — Spanish
Pacifico (Pacific) — Italian
Pacífico (Pacific) — Spanish
Musica (Music) — Italian
Música (Music) — Spanish
Telefono (Telephone) — Italian
Teléfono (Telephone) — Spanish
Arte (Art) — Both languages
La biblioteca (The library) — Both languages
Una casa (A house) — Both languages
La casa grande (The big house) — Both languages
La mano (The hand) — Both languages
Caffè (Coffee) — Italian
Café (Coffee) — Spanish
Zero (Zero) — Italian
Cero (Zero) — Spanish
La terra (The earth) — Italian
La tierra (The earth) — Spanish
Secondo (Second) — Italian
Segundo (Second) — Spanish
Sempre (Always) — Italian
Siempre (Always) — Spanish
Supermercato (Supermarket) — Italian
Supermercado (Supermarket) — Spanish
Tempo (Time) — Italian
Tiempo (Time) — Spanis
Jan 20, 2020 12:56 am
Jan 30, 2020 6:01 pm
@elhartista
Both grew essentially around a similar time, Spanish from the northern Iberian-sentiment tongues, and Italian from the sentiment vernacular spoken in the territory of Tuscany.
Oct 08, 2020 2:46 am
@sukangiloko. That's what my father says. My father speaks Spanish and he said he can even understand some classical Latin.
Jan 17, 2020 8:08 pm
I live near a Italian neighborhood, When I hear Italian's speak I can understand some of their words because Tagalog has a few of Spanish ''loan words''. Overall austronesian and Latin language are very different.
You should hear Indonesia, Some of Indonesia language have a lot of Dutch loan words as well.
Jan 18, 2020 9:42 pm
@rambo
those words that you probably understand are Spanish words that borrowed the Italian language.
see above and tell me if you can understand some of those words.
Jan 20, 2020 12:59 am
@rambo
My sister's husband is a puti-american and he's traveled to Indonesia before, and he said that Tagalog sounds a lot like Indonesian!
Jan 20, 2020 6:24 pm
@elhartista
Indonesia is tagalog with a lot of ja je ju jo ji... a lot of ''j's''
Oct 04, 2020 9:17 pm
@rambo
Also their rolling Rrrrs are a lot more pronounced, Filipino R is more like Irish and Indonesian R is more like Scottish imo.
Oct 08, 2020 1:03 am
Oct 04, 2020 9:16 pm
@rambo I believe Bahasa Indonesia has 2x the amount of Dutch loan words than Tagalog for example has of Spanish loan words. So that's a lot, not including their Arabic, Indian, and English loan words.
Oct 04, 2020 9:25 pm
I am going to invite some dutch people here in the future, with the list of words between dutch and indonsian soon. Yes there are more dutch loan words in the Indonesian language than Spanish loan words in the Filipino language.
https://www.amazians.com/forum/indonesia/similarities-between-dutch-and-indonesian/
Jan 25, 2020 8:47 pm
I saw many Mexican 23andme testers who scored like 7-10% Sicily on 23andme's latest update lol
I even saw another non-Mexican Latino who scored 'Campania'-Italy too I believe
@elhartista
The Spanish Empire stretched into Italy, even our former Bishop here in Jaro is Italian, his name is Piamonte, meaning from the Piedmont region of Italy.
Oct 04, 2020 11:44 pm
Jaro in Iloilo. It's a town built by Spanish (French, Portuguese and Italian) Mestizos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaro,_Iloilo_City#History
Historically, Jaro holds a high-concentration of Filipino-Mestizos and hosts many ancestral mansions of old Visayan families (of Mestizo descent). Family mansions such as those owned by the Lopez, Montinolla, Sanson, Luzariagga, De la Rama etc. families line the streets of this historic district. The French traveler Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy wrote of the place as such in his travelogues.
Jaro is much bigger in size than Iloilo; it is a rich town, of mestizos who own great fortunes… the people of Haro are more civilized than those of the other neighboring towns (Molo and Iloilo). The color of their skin is whiter, consequence of a great mixture of European blood; and Spanish is spoken better there than in any place in the colony, the Capital excepted; the women are very beautiful and I can give assurance of this, having had the pleasure of being amongst them, that they have grace and figure and the features, which would call attention even in Europe. They show taste in their dress, which is rich and elegant and, like all mestizas, they show a lot of spirit.
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Oct 05, 2020 7:30 pm
Taking a trip around Panay Island would be fun and Jaro would be one stop over worth visiting. Time to eat chicken inasal. I probably should take the flight to the international airport located just north of Jaro and IloIlo City. Both cities have some new malls to visit and Dinagyang Festival. Panay Island is a wonderful island but it's famous because Boracay Island and Ati-Atihan Festival are popular tourist spots in Kalibo but it has also other cities to visit such as Roxas City and San Jose. Definitely, IloIlo City is a boat ride to Guimaras and Bacolod City.
Wow you are knowledgable about my island. Where are you from btw? Id love to visit your home too.
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