Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates

Tagalog spoken in Manila and the surrounding provinces Luzon Philippines is a major language of the western branch of the Austronesian family. The bulk of this book is devoted to parallel words also found in Malay a member of the same branch. These words are either cognates descending from Proto-Austronesian or borrowings from the same foreign languages. Other cognates were found in Javanese Malagasy Tahitian and even Siamese. The last third of the book deals with Sanskrit Arabic Spanish Chinese Japanese and English loanwords.