Christianity In The Philippines Religion And Public Life At Harvard Divinity School
Pinoy is the shortened, colloquial version for Filipino to mean the folks, but by no means the language. It becomes Pinay when referring to a female, though Pinoy is also utilized to refer to each male and female. Filipino is the Hispanized way of referring to both the persons and the language in the Philippines. Note that it is also appropriate to say Filipino for a male and Filipina for a female. Early Spanish chroniclers testified that the Filipinos carved…