The term Pilipinas or Filipinas refers to the name of our country, which was named for King Philip of Spain.

In 1950, the National Language-English Vocabulary (NLEV, 1950) of the Institute of National Language was based on the existing alphabet of 20 letters without an F. Hence, the name Pilipinas was entered in the Diksyunaryo Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles of the late Jose Villa Panganiban.

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