How Much SPANISH is in TAGALOG or FILIPINO Language?

How Much SPANISH is there in TAGALOG or FILIPINO Language?
Is TAGALOG or FILIPINO a Spanish Creole? Filipino vs. Spanish language challenge.

According to Wikipedia, of the 30,000 root words of the Tagalog language, there are close to 4,000 from Spanish. The Filipino language incorporated Spanish loanwords as a result of 333 years of contact with the Spanish language. In their review of a Pilipino-English dictionary, Llamzon and Thorpe (1972) point out that 40% of word roots are of Spanish origin.

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