Essay About Colonization In The Philippines

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Colonization in Philippine Philippine was one of the Southeast-Asian countries that was under the colonization of a great imperial ruler. However, unlike other countries in this region like Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, Philippine was under the power of two big nations; Spain and America. Spain has ruled over Philippine for a very long time. Their first expedition started on March 16, 1521 when Ferdinand Magellan arrived in Cebu and claimed the island for Spain. But it did not continue for long because shortly after, Magellan was killed by a native who was against the foreign dominance. After several decades, another expedition led by Ruy López de Villalobos was sent in 1542 and eventually they gave the island the name Las Islas Filipinas …show more content…

These language shifts were inflicted either by outsiders or local people. The first language shift occurred was Arabic through the coming of Islam in Philippine in the late 14th century. The second shift happened in 1565 during the Spaniards’ intrusion and the third shift took place with the introduction of English in 1898. But only in 1935, the Filipino people earnestly expressed in their writing using the national language, Filipino and that marked the fourth shift of language. Lastly, the fifth language shift was Taglish where Tagalog and English are mixing …show more content…

And also the Philippines are influenced by the American English rather than British English in other South-East Asian countries. There are some differences can be traced in terms of their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and style. In terms of pronunciation, Philippine English is slightly different from American English where alveolar flap can be found instead of retroflex /r/. Besides that, there is no distinction in their pronunciation between long vowel and short vowel. For example like sheep/ship, full/fool, and boat/bought are not essentially

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