Why piliphino -language of Philipines has words smiliar to hindi,punjabi,urdu like salamat,babae,mahal?
because one of the early people in the island of the philippines were from INDIA.more than one thousand years ago.so many present tagalog words were coined from hindi language.try to look the laguna copper plate of the year 822 A.D. and you will read an early sanskrit words.like dyotisa(astrology) etc.type BAYBAYIN in your computer and search the web.