# grandfather in Filipino? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 18, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandfather-in-filipino/250973 "2004-06-18T02:31:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rookie523](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@rookie523](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rookie523)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandfather-in-filipino/250973/1 "2004-06-18T02:31:40Z")
Hi, I have to get a father’s day card for a daycare student… but she doesn’t have a father… she does have a grandfather. but i need to put on the card, “grandfather” in filipino. can someone help out with this? thx! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandfather-in-filipino/250973/2 "2004-06-18T03:00:34Z")
[Link](http://www.tagalog-dictionary.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?s=grandfather) Search engines are your friends. ---
**Author:** ![rookie523](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@rookie523](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rookie523)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandfather-in-filipino/250973/3 "2004-06-18T03:06:42Z")
thx!! i tried “grandfather filipino language” grandfather translated into filipino and it wasn’t the first 3 pages… just got info on people writing about those words… ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandfather-in-filipino/250973/4 "2004-06-18T03:32:24Z")
Lolo. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandfather-in-filipino/250973/5 "2004-06-18T07:47:23Z")
> [@rookie523](#): > > thx!! > > i tried “grandfather filipino language” > grandfather translated into filipino > > and it wasn’t the first 3 pages… > just got info on people writing about those words… Weird. I was gonna say that “Filipino” wasn’t a language, because that’s what my family says (I’m half Filipino). But I went and looked anyway, [and it seems I’m wrong](http://www.tourism.gov.ph/discover/facts.asp). > [@](#): > > Two official languages — Filipino and English. Filipino which is based on Tagalog, is the national language. English is also widely used and is the medium of instruction in higher education. > > Eight (8) major dialects spoken by majority of the Filipinos: Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo, Bicol, Waray, Pampango, and Pangasinense. I was always told that there isn’t a language called Filipino, so I ran a Google search and discovered that it’s a matter of some contention, or at least was at one time. > [@](#): > > from [The Metamorphosis of Filipino as National Language](http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/essays_on_philippine_languages.htm): > > In 1937, the [National Language] Institute recommended Tagalog and came up with the Balarila and the Tagalog- English Dictionary. In 1959, the Department of Education called the Tagalog-based national language Pilipino. In > 1965, some congressmen took the cudgels againsts the propagation of Pilipino, which to them is “puristang Tagalog,” as the national language. This period witnessed the purists coining words like salumpuwit (chair), salimpapaw (airplane), sipnayan (mathematics), etc… Be that as it may, the Board of National Education ordered in 1970 the gradual shift to Pilipino as medium of instruction… My dad’s family came over in the 60s, so I guess they subscribed to the purist movement. ---
**Author:** ![gambler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@gambler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gambler)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandfather-in-filipino/250973/6 "2004-06-18T15:37:05Z")
All my filipino friends say that their language is Tagalog. And no, they’re not all related (so they tell me). My friends mom and her family were raised on Ilocano, but they still say that the national language is Tagalog. Maybe they say that to lessen confusion. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Vision\_of\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Vision\_of\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vision_of_Love)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandfather-in-filipino/250973/7 "2004-06-18T19:37:25Z")
The national language is Filipino, but there are many different dialects of it. Because many of these dialects differ from one another, most Filipinos treat them all as separate languages. Because Tagalog is the most often used Filipino dialect, some people call _it_ the Filipino language. My dad speaks three different dialects of Filipino: Tagalog, Bisaya, and Maranao (his mother tongue). I only understand Tagalog. The other two sound almost completely foreign to me. ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandfather-in-filipino/250973/8 "2012-01-05T00:06:39Z")
> [@Vision\_of\_Love](#): > > The national language is Filipino, but there are many different dialects of it. Because many of these dialects differ from one another, most Filipinos treat them all as separate languages. > > Because Tagalog is the most often used Filipino dialect, some people call _it_ the Filipino language. > > My dad speaks three different dialects of Filipino: Tagalog, Bisaya, and Maranao (his mother tongue). I only understand Tagalog. The other two sound almost completely foreign to me. That’s because they’re not dialects of Filipino. That’s a universal misconception among Filipinos