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[–] 26 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Hey Filipino here - i honestly don't know the answer (or maybe I'm too old to remember my history class) but as per Wikipedia

The name Filipino, as a demonym, was derived from the term las Islas Filipinas 'the Philippine Islands', the name given to the archipelago in 1543 by the Spanish explorer and Dominican priest Ruy López de Villalobos, in honor of Philip II of Spain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipinos

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    that doesn't answer the question of why F vs PH

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    When it became a US colony they changed it.

    That was printed on maps. The people still referred to themselves with the original spelling.

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