Why are people from the Philippines called Filipinos?
 

I wonder. The name sounds right, but why is it spelled with an F? Shouldn't it be philipinos?

Anyone know why?

Yes I'm bored on a Friday night :)

i like saying fotografer too haha

faster to type ;)

because the philippines was once a spanish colony called something like islands of the filipinas or something like that and the name stuck.

ah, that makes sense then. thanks for the info.

I'm also fond of writing failure as phailure. :upsidedow

Pilipino is used to describe the people of the Philippines. The term "Filipino" is commonly used when you are talking or writing in English or other foreign language. "Filipino" is the Philippines' national, official and constitutional language. Historically, Spanish was the official language of the country, and 'ph' is rendered as 'f' in the language

Spanish influence. -That's also why a lot of Filipinos will sometimes have spanish last names.

The term "Filipino" originally referred to Spaniards born in the Philippines, also known as insulares, criollos or español filipino.

This distinguished them from Spaniards born in Europe who were known as peninsulares during the time The Philippines was a Spanish colony. By the mid to late nineteenth century, however, the term "Filipino" had begun to refer to the indigenous population of the Philippines.

According to historian Ambeth Ocampo, José Rizal was the first to call the native inhabitants "Filipinos".

Filipinos may refer to themselves as Pinoy (feminine: Pinay), which is formed by taking the last four letters of Pilipino and adding the diminutive suffix -y. The word was coined by expatriate Filipino Americans during the 1920s and was later adopted by Filipinos in the Philippines.

Maybe the same reason Americans write: "Netherlands" and Dutch people usually write: "Nederlands"?

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But I guess to answer your questions exactly.



The use of /p/ is used since many languages lack /f/ as a phoneme.

In human language, a phoneme is the smallest structural unit that distinguishes meaning. Phonemes are not the physical segments themselves, but, in theoretical terms, cognitive abstractions of them.

An example of a phoneme is the /t/ sound in the words tip, stand, water, and cat. (In transcription, phonemes are placed between slashes, as here.) These are conceived of as being the same sound, despite the fact that in each word they are pronounced somewhat differently; the difference may not even be audible to native speakers.

That is, a phoneme may encompass several recognizably different speech sounds, called phones. In our example, the /t/ in tip is aspirated, [tʰ], while the /t/ in stand is not, [t]. (In transcription, speech sounds that are not phonemes are placed in brackets, as here.)

Phones that belong to the same phoneme, such as [t] and [tʰ] for English /t/, are called allophones. A common test to determine whether two phones are allophones or separate phonemes relies on finding minimal pairs: words that differ by only the phones in question. For example, the words tip and dip illustrate that [t] and [d] are separate phonemes, /t/ and /d/, in English,

Some linguists (such as Roman Jakobson) consider phonemes to be further decomposable into features, such features being the true minimal constituents of language. Features overlap each other in time, as do suprasegmental phonemes in oral language and many phonemes in sign languages.

this thread clears up so much

odd - i asked three ppl just now, they had no clue ... go figure haha

Was Russel Simmons involved in the naming of the Philippines?

WRONG.

The Phillipine Islands were named after King Phillip, as Spain ruled the P.I. for 400 years. We are closer to being a Latin country than we are asian. Tagalog is comprised of about 30 to 40% spanish, mixed in with indigenous dialect.

Filipinos also spell our country's name as Filipinas. Hence where you get the name Filipinos.

We also use Pinoys.

Some street trash types here shortened it even further to "flip" many years ago.

When I was a teenager I'd drive downtown and hear such quaint things as "Let's cruise down Seargeant Ave. and run over some gawd-damn flips"

I'm okay with typing out Filippinos.

Yah, I've been called a Flip a few times before I grew to over 6 feet and 250lbs. :)

I can imagine.

I've worked with many many filippinos in the past, been friends with several, and heaven help the fucker that ever called one of them "flip" in my presence.

I'm about as politically correct as Howard Stern, but there's a line.

This is why I love you. In a platonic manly way. :)

Why don't you guys just look in a dictionary or use Google :upsidedow

as a spanish speaker I say what the phuck

I thought Filipinos are fast food .... cookies from KRAFT :-) LOL

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Because it makes more sense than calling them "Kangaroos"! :winkwink: