Theories abound to explain why Filipinos love to give nicknames that repeat the same syllables. One I’ve found sensible is rooted in linguistics. According to this theory,
“….all languages in the Philippines belong to the Malayo-Polynesian family of languages, which is itself a member of the Austronesian clan. As such, our languages are agglutinative – i.e., we extensively glue words together to form new words.”
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