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Old November 10, 2010, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by irmamar View Post
Marhay na bangui, Vita.

Is Bicol a dialect from Tagalog?
Marhay na bangui man saimo, irmamar(good evening to you too, irmamar).

Some Bicol words are similar to Tagalog especially words that are Spanish in origin. Joijoi posted something about the prevalence of Spanish words in the Tagalog (Pilipino) language. This is true also in the dialects of the Bicol Region. Spanish for table = mesa; in Bicol dialect it is lamesa; and as joijoi posted, it is mesa in Tagalog. In Bicol region counting past the number 10 is done in Spanish simply because the local equivalents of the numbers past number ten is very long and wordy. To give an example:

Twenty Three=veinte tres=duwang sampolo may tulo (Bicol)

The spelling of the Spanish numbers is localized since Bicol alphabet does not have v, c, f, ñ, j, x, z. So veinte tres =beinte tres. The Filipino alphabet is somewhat ironic because lots of places in the Philippines and names of Filipinos use the missing letters of the Filipino Alphabets.
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