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Hiligaynon support?
Hiligaynon support?
Posted Mar 29, 2008 15:46 UTC (Sat) by krp (subscriber, #4866)In reply to: Hiligaynon support? by MKallas
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.4 released
Hiligaynon appears to be some sort of Polynesian dialect according to wikipedia...Spanish might not help much. 8-P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiligaynon_language
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Hiligaynon support?
Posted Mar 30, 2008 19:00 UTC (Sun) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
A lot of my friends are from that part of the Philippines, so I've been learning the language - but having only one small dictionary, progress is slow. A lot of Spanish words entered the language during the 300 years of Spanish occupation (governed from Mexico). It's pretty clear which words are native, which are from Spanish, and which are from English, so the language tells the history of the region. Basic words about the weather, plants, animals, body parts, emotions are usually of native origin. Words about religion, politics, cutlery, and some items of clothing are from Spanish. Words about very modern things like computers and the Internet are from English. So you can see during which period in the society's history they acquired each technology/concept.