Filipino is Tagalog Plus--Tagalog plus a lot of words from other languages.

Benjie wrote <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DILA/message/18424>:

There is no doubt that language changes and no one disputes that the Tagalog of today is different from Tagalog of yesterday. The only point of contention is whether "Filipino" is a separate language from Tagalog. It is not.

 

The mere fact that "Filipino" has words of non-Tagalog origin does not make it a separate language from Tagalog. ... no language stays the same but changes over time.

 

And Tagalog has been adapting words from non-Tagalog languages long before it was imposed as the national language.

 

By way of analogy, the Tacloban dialect of Waray uses a lot of Cebuano, Spanish, and English loan words (e.g., Spanish "bintana" instead of the the original Waray-Bisaya "tamboan") but that does not make the Tacloban dialect a separate language from the Waray language.

 

No, "Filipino" has never been established as a separate language from Tagalog. And those who claim otherwise can't prove it.