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METZGER— THE FILIPINO. 



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Of the fifty odd different tribes there are almost as many distinct 

 dialects, however, with few exceptions, there is a general similarity 

 which permits of mutual comprehension. There are not only many 

 words in common peculiar to the native tongue but Spanish words 

 have been adopted into most of the dialects. The Tagalog and 



I. Negritos. 



Yliocano are probably the most general in the northern country, 

 while the Visayan and the Mahratte dialect of the mother Sanskrit 

 predominate in the middle and south lands. 



The Tagalog, Yliocano and Viscayan are gutteral languages 01 

 great preponderance of consonants and limited vocabularies. 



The remnant of the tribe of Negritos, the supposed descendants 



