Chavacano

17 February 2008 28 views by: rhodilee 6 Comments

I was in Zamboanga city last week and most of the people indeed speak chavacano. Chavacano is what you may call a local adaptation of the spanish language. It is primarily spoken in Zamboanga City which is why the City is now promoted as Asia’s Latin City.

My husband’s maternal family speaks chavacano but I have never learned to use it. I really like to hear people speak in chavacano though. I wonder if people who have been studying to speak Spanish can also understand chavacano. Chavacano is afterall a combination of the spanish, cebuano and tagalog languages.

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Acer_Cyle said:

Chavacano is NOT an adaptaion from spanish!

define first CREOLE!!!

Chavacano Language is a CREOLE LANGAUGE also a SPANISH CREOLE, a name given to the six varieties of the Philippine Creole Spanish. an Iberian language, EVOLVED from Spanish with influences from European, Quechua, Maxican Indian, Taino, and Philippine Austronesian as for its grammatical structure.

Quechua, Mexican-Indian and Taino are member of the Native American Languages Family.

CHAVACANO LANGAUGE, is the only language f the philippines which is NOT a member of the Austronesian Languafes Family.

European:
Italiano
portuguese

Phil. Austronesian (malayo-polynesian):
tagalo
bisaya
ilongo
subanon
sama-bangingi
tausug
yakan

# 14 March 2008 at 2:00 pm

rhodilee said:

Thank you for the information but you do not have to put lots of EXCLAMATION MARKS in your comment. I should have said “evolved from the Spanish language” not “local adaptation of the spanish language”.

# 14 March 2008 at 3:50 pm

Acer_Cyle said:

perdoname por el muchas exclamacion punto que ya pone yo all!

bueno, if you wanna see more info about the language here are the links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavacano_language

http://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Primero_Pagina

# 24 March 2008 at 9:54 pm

Acer_Cyle said:

but agian its quite correct to say “Creole Language” rather than “evolved Spanish” because Chavacano language is NOT spanish… thank you….God bless you!=)

# 25 March 2008 at 7:13 am