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Little blessings (lemmy.world)
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[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

As a native Cebuano speaker I would have said it's Tagalog. The word choice is a bit odd for Cebuano as the common way to say it would be "Ingon sila", at least in the metro Cebu dialect of Cebuano. I could be wrong though, as you mentioned there's many dialects of it.

Linguistically Cebuano is a distinct language from Tagalog, though they're closely related as they descend from the same proto-language.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Admittedly it’s been over a decade since I was fluent in Tagalog, and this could be a more formal (meaning biblical) grammar that isn’t used in daily conversations. Similar to old/formal English (“For whomsoever doth…”) versus modern English (“Anyone that…”).

    My Tagalog was learned while amongst the Bikolanos. It probably wouldn’t have equated to much more than Grade 5 fluency. I’d trust a native Cebuano much more than some rusty Amerikano like myself 😄 especially since I only know maybe three words of Cebuano to begin with

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