Communist Ventriloquist

Not true, sorry. Many traditional Filipino cultures actually have the sounds they removed in the 1980s version of the Filipino alphabet. The Ifugao of Central Luzon and Manuvu of Central Mindanao for instance, have native F and V sounds. The Bisaya (including the Hiligaynon) and the Moro peoples have native J, Ch, Sh, and Z sounds (e.g. Bajau, Zamboanga). The insistence on removing those letters were not based on the absence of those sounds, but were the result of Tagalog chauvinism, which is still evident today.

Rizal himself was a very poor Tagalog speaker. His native tongue was Spanish. He didn't even know what the Tagalog word for "freedom" was, a fact recorded in his letters. And Rizal didn't work on the national language, he only proposed the C->K change. And it was only implemented long after he was dead (the 1920s to be precise, when the Commonwealth government formed the precursor of the language commission). Early drafts of the "Filipino language" was also quite good, actually utilizing many different words from different languages of the Philippines. But by the 1940s to 1950s, all of that was forgotten, and it was decided that Tagalog would be the basis for the national language provided that elements from other Philippine languages would be added to it later on. However, more than half a century later, our national language is still Tagalog. No effort has been made to make it truly national despite earlier plans for it. There still is nothing of any other languages of the Philippines in the national language.

Heck, most teachers today still deny the fact that "Filipino language" is more or less synonymous with Tagalog. They're content in accusing anyone who dares disrespect it with foreign additions as traitors to the country. As you're doing right now. I mean... jeez. It's been a hundred years, isn't it? We're not exactly at war with Spain or the US anymore.

How many Filipinos can actually read Noli mi Tangere the way it was meant to be read? How many know the exact words Pigafetta wrote about the Philippines? How many songs and cundimans like Flor de Manila have been lost simply because people don't understand their lyrics anymore? Do you know just how much history is actually unknown to most modern Filipinos simply because they don't understand Spanish? 300 years. And 300 years of history is not something you can simply throw away and pretend it never happened.

The difference between "intindi" and "dyip" is that the former achieved its spelling through natural linguistic evolution. The latter is imposed by classroom conventions as a way to "separate" the indigenous from the non-indigenous. I distinctly remember an elementary school lesson where the teacher taught us how to "convert" English words into "acceptable" Filipino spelling. And the way to do that was simple: spell it like how an imaginary uneducated tribesman would spell it.

Japanese phonology and orthography is significantly different from English, that gairaigo and wasei-eigo ("loanwords") must necessarily be quite different from the original. The average Japanese person simply can not pronounce some English phonemes. The Chinese have a similar problem, though it has to do more with grammar - their languages lack tenses. Filipinos, in contrast, have no such excuses. There might be a slight difference in accents, but all Filipinos CAN pronounce all the English phonemes perfectly. Filipinos can't even plead isolation, given that English is one of the two official languages of the country and is the language of choice in almost everything "official".

Filipino orthography is INVENTED, it's not the natural state of the language. I don't take pride in whitewashing and denial sorry. Nor am I still stuck in the past that I must consciously excise all foreign influence in my language just to prove that I'm proud of my heritage.

P.S. Another common misconception among Filipinos is that Castilian Spanish pronounced V like the English V. Actually they pronounced it like B. "Visayas" was originally pronounced "Bisayas" even by the Spanish. The introduction of Spanish pronunciation even led to the loss of native V sounds. The Manuvu for example, are now referred to by most other Filipinos as Manobo. Ivatan became Batanes, T'voli became T'boli, etc.