Friday, 20 March 2009

Some bibliographic references about Latin Asia

Spanish cultural influence in The Philippines

For the largest Latin Asian country Wikipedia offers a very interesting article titled Hispanic influence on Filipino culture where Philippines is describe like a Latin American country. There is a reference to British Arnold Toynbee about Philippines being "a Latin American country that was transported to Orient by a gigantic marine wave"

Direct link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_influence_on_Filipino_culture

 

Portuguese cultural influence in East Timor

There is one article about Tetum, the indigenous language of Timor Leste and co official with Portuguese, which has had a lot of Portuguese influence and included many Portuguese terms in it lexicon.

Direct link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetum_language

 

Links to Latin Asia

In Portuguese: Ásia Latina

In French: Asie latine

In Spanish: Asia Latina

In Tagalo: Asyang Latino


Other references:

Portuguese in East Timor

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