Hodgepodge

You can put anything into a hodgepodge.

His language is a hodgepodge of logograms and phonograms, which everyone learns in school.

His mutterings are a hodgepodge of insults and complaints.

The architecture of American homes is a lot like America itself, a hodgepodge of different styles from different countries often melded together into one whole.

Without modern Berber terminology and Berber words borrowed from virtually every living Berber dialect, Kabyle would be little more than a pidgin, a hodgepodge of a couple Berber roots mixed with countless French and Arabic words.

The Algerian constitution is translated into modern Berber, not a local dialect commonly referred to as Kabyle. In fact, modern Berber is based on a commonly spoken Berber dialect enhanced with a consensual modern terminology, while Kabyle, as a dialect, has unfortunately become some sort of pidgin or a hodgepodge of a couple Berber words mixed with countless French and Arabic words.

The Philippine language ecology hodgepodge includes the pink lemonade fizzy drink of American English, the chocolate desserts of Spanish heritage, the delicate noodles of Chinese influence, and, of course, the varied colourful rice cakes of numerous native Austronesian languages, including Tagalog.

Filipino culture as it pertains to the indigenous language is highly aural-oral. It's not just Tagalog, as there are regional and local languages, as well. English as fizzy faddish words is part of the common code-switching of the masses, whilst Spanish loanwords sit in feeling at home in the stew. It's a linguistic hodgepodge. Most just enjoy long hours of chitchat or watching television, videos, or cinema commonly in the indigenous language. English sounds and text don't really appeal to the masses, but English is a hesitantly established piece of furniture, useful for understanding the outside world. Filipinos generally are not known as avid readers, except for elite people maybe entrenched in the margins of the Anglosphere. Literature in the indigenous language is still relatively scarce.

In the beginning of the twentieth century, the Philippine elite started switching from Spanish to English as the archipelagic elitist language, especially in written form, as a consequence of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Meanwhile, indigenous languages have continued to be the aural-oral mainstay, with Spanish loanwords being quite common. In 1937, administration chose Tagalog as the basis of the national language. As time passed, code-switching between English and indigenous languages became more prevalent. As a result, the Philippines is a linguistic hodgepodge. English is like an effervescent pink drink, and Tagalog is a grey shark in the seas. Spanish still rings nostalgically of bygone majestic good ol' days for many Filipinos. Tagalog is still not as fully "intellectualized" as its cousin Indonesian, which Indonesians use in university-level education and has extensive literature.

The Philippines is a real hodgepodge, the people, the places, and the languages. This incoherence confuses non-Filipinos. Certainly, the Philippines is not monolithic. The Philippines has high dependency on the Anglosphere, but this affair is changing with the new acquaintances with neighbouring Asian peoples. Previously, there were just two conditions for Filipinos, being in the Philippines and being "stateside," which is now an outmoded paradigm.