Orthography – it’s more fun in the Philippines

Pinoys have a funny orthography. In their original indigenous languages – there are over 90 of them – Filipinos do not distinguish F an P. You can even read this on the banknotes: Rebublika ng Pilipinas. 

J is pronounced like H and H remains H. So Mambajao is not Mambatchao but Mambahao or Jagna isn’t Tchagna but hagna. 

They also happily mix up he and she. That’s no problem – for this circumstance you find “baklas” anywhere.

And then came the cellphones. A real heaven for Pinoy language artists.
For is reduced 4, To is reduced to 2, Are you is reduced to R U. 

Ortograpi made in Pilipinas