Tagalog and Spanish language~ have words in common?
I have known some words in Tagalog language is same as in Spanish.
Any Tagalog speakers can tell me those common words that both languages shares?
Yup! There are a lot including: Kultura (Culture), Gwapo (Handsome), Pamilya (Family), Fiesta (Feast), Tsino (Chinese), Hapones (Japanese), Numero (Number), Eskwela (School).
The spellings may be different but the pronunciation's all the same.
Actually, there's a complete listing of Filipino loan words in wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_loanwords_in_Tagalog
Hope that helps!
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There are also a lot of loanwords from Malay, Indonesian and Sanskrit, which should help you in learning the language.
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