5 Facts about Tagalog

Posted on May 14, 2016November 11, 2017 by TFE Times

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1. Tagalog is the fifth most spoken language in the United States, ranking higher than Vietnamese, Korean, German, Arabic and Russian

2. The Tagalog word for love (mahal), is also the Tagalog word for expensive

3. The American English word “boondocks” comes from the Tagalog word “bundok”, meaning “mountain,” and used colloquially to refer to rural, inland, hard-to-reach areas

4. There is a word in the Tagalog language for that “cute aggression” feeling that we get with our pets. The word is ‘gigil’

5. Simlish, the Sims’ language, was created by experimenting with Tagalog

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