sentences:  For example, an Islamic religious teacher is either an "ustaz" (male) or an "ustazah" (female), and a noble person is either a "puteri" ('princess') or a "putera" ('prince').Tagalog, like most Austronesian languages, is gender-neutral.However, because Tagalog has had over three centuries of Spanish influence, gender is usually differentiated in certain Spanish loanwords by way of the suffixes "-a" (feminine)" and -o" (masculine).