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  Encyclopedia: Tagalog language
Being an Austronesian language, it is related to Indonesian, Malay, Fijian, Maori (of New Zealand), Hawaiian, Malagasy (of Madagascar), Samoan, Tahitian, Chamorro (of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands), Tetum (of East Timor), and Paiwan (of Taiwan).
Languages that have made significant contributions to Tagalog are Spanish, Fukien Chinese, English, Malay, Sanskrit (via Malay), Arabic (via Malay/Spanish), and Northern Philippine languages such as Kapampangan spoken on the island of Luzon.
Bicolano or Bikol is an Austronesian language used in the Philippines particularly on the Bicol Peninsula on the island of Luzon.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tagalog-language   (5972 words)

  
 Languages_of_the_Philippines LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
Although the teaching of the national language in schools began in 1940, Tagalog was not made an official language until the restoration of its independence on July 4, 1946.
Meso Philippine languages are perhaps the group with the most speakers and is the most geographically widespread, covering Central Luzon, the Visayan islands and many parts of Mindanao.
The Lan-nang variant of the Min Nan is the language of the majority the Chinese in the Philippines, who immigrated from the Fujian (pronounced locally as Fookien or Hokkien) province in China.
language.school-explorer.com /info/Languages_of_the_Philippines   (2296 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Malaysia
Malaysia was formed in 1963 when the former British colonies of Singapore and the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern coast of Borneo joined the Federation.
The first several years of the country's history were marred by Indonesian efforts to control Malaysia, Philippine claims to Sabah, and Singapore's secession from the Federation in 1965.
The Malaysian ringgit is pegged to the dollar, and the Japanese central bank continues to intervene and prop up the yen against the dollar.
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 Philippine Islands encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Philippine Islands politics and officials, Philippine ...
Philippine Islands encyclopedia : Cultural Information, Maps, Philippine Islands politics and officials, Philippine Islands History.
The Philippine Islands became a Spanish colony during the 16th century; they were ceded to the US in 1898 following the Spanish-American War.
The Philippines has had a series of electoral presidential transitions since the removal of MARCOS.
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 882 Manually selected World Language Dictionarie Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
CBEL >> 882 World Language Dictionaries Reference sites, last updated on 21 November 2005
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- The Dictionary of the Spoken Taino Language
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