Bonus: Tagalog is based off Malay, but a lot of the vocabulary is Spanish spelt in an American-ish way, and many speakers use Taglish because straight Tagalog leads to very deep Shakespeare-like words.
Tagalog is one hell of a language. I'm guessing the structure is similar to Malay, but I can't understand Malay at all. Spanish makes 0 sense to me but I can tell you pick out random words with 0 context nor sense.
I always like to compare it to English. Did you know English is a Germanic language? The most common English words are Germanic, but we probably can't understand Germanic because only the structure is Germanic - other words might come from Greek, Old French or Latin. Ig it helps us pick out random words from a romance language like French but not understand the structure.
Oh and yes I just swallowed this from some Insta account but I love this fun fact.
I don't think it is correct to say that Tagalog is based off Malay. This implies that without Malay, Tagalog would not exist. It is more correct to say Malay and Tagalog are related languages, and are probably based off a common language.
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