The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: #38: Tagalog is Derived from Hebrew
Welcome back to 100 lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Timothy Jay Schwab's claim that Filipino, especially Tagalog, is derived from Hebrew. As we shall this is just another lie. We are going to look at Tim's justification for looking for Hebrew words not his linguistics. Tim has two sources he uses to justify his search for Hebrew words in Tagalog. In his video series he says the following: Solomon's Gold Series - Part 7: Track of the Hebrew to the Philippines. Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish 28:57 Another point raised by Padre Chirino where he even said that it, the Tagalog language, has the mystery and obscurities of the Hebrew language. So, he even believed that there were similarities between Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, and Hebrew. Steven Levinsohn, a linguist, wrote "At the end of the workshop one mother tongue translator remarked that had he known of the parallels between Philippine languages and Biblical