A viral video surface on the internet featuring the minions or the yellow creatures of the animated movie, Despicable Me, speaking in what sounds like Filipino or Tagalog. The video have gone viral on different social media sites.
The video of the minions last for about 48-seconds, featuring a group of minions trying to replace a light bulb in which netizens across the world swear that the characters have uttered Filipino words like, “narito na” and “ikot.”
According to the producer of the movie, Despicable Me, John Cohen, who explains why sometimes we heard Filipino words in the minions, “A lot of times it sounds like it’s gibberish, a lot of times you hear a little bit of French. You hear all the kinds of languages being incorporated into the way they speak,” Cohen explained.
Watch the video below:
Here’s another video showing evidence of Filipino words by the minions: