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Chavacano language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chavacano (or Chabacano) is a blanket name for the Spanish-based creole languages spoken in the Philippines. Chavacano speakers are concentrated mostly in the provinces of Zamboanga, Cotabato, and Cavite. The vocabulary is predominantly derived from the Spanish language, while the grammar is mostly based on other Philippine languages such as Tagalog, Cebuano, and Hiligaynon. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chabacano   (862 words)

Spanish Language Encyclopedia Article @ VariedTastes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) It is the most-widely spoken Romance Language, and the fourth most-widely spoken language in the world according to some sources, while other sources list it as the second or third most spoken language. From the 16th century on, the language was brought to the Americas, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marianas, Palau and the Philippines by Spanish colonization. Spanish ceased to be an official language of the Philippines in 1987, and it is now spoken by less than 0.01% of the population; 2,658 speakers (1990 Census). www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Spanish_language   (3397 words)

MARC Code List for Languages Additional codes for individual languages are created from time to time when it becomes apparent that a significant body of literature in a particular language already exists, or when it is determined that the amount of material in a language is growing. While some individual languages are given their own unique code, although linguistically they are part of a language group, many individual languages are assigned a group code, because it is not considered practical to establish a separate code for each. Ancient languages which are not given unique codes are assigned the code for the major language group to which each belongs, rather than the code for the modern language which evolved from the ancient language. www.loc.gov /marc/languages   (1726 words)

Spanish language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) The Spanish language was developed from vulgar Latin, with influence from Basque and Arabic, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula (see Iberian Romance languages). The language was brought to the Americas, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marianas, Palau and the Philippines, by Spanish colonization, beginning in the 16th century. Spanish is one of the official languages of the United Nations, the European Union and the African Union. www.free-download-soft.com /info/spanish-language.html   (2060 words)

Chabacano Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) The name of this creole language stems from the Spanish word Chabacano, which in the Spanish language is defined as meaning "vulgar" or "unpleasant". - http://www.rogersantos.org/chabacano.html Chavacano of Cavite Category:Languages of the Philippines Category:Pidgins and creoles Category:Romance languages Bahasa Malaysia is the national language spoken across ethnicities, although the spoken Sabahan dialect of Bahasa Malaysia differs majorly in inflection and intonation to the West Malaysian version, having more similarity in pronunciation to Bahasa Indonesia. chabacano.en.ogarnij.info   (10520 words)

The Early History of Chavacano de Zamboanga - Asia Finest Discussion Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) Since the Visayan language is the predominantly spoken language in the Philippines today (over fifteen million), it is our conclusion that the VC was absorbed very early on into the native Bisaya before or after the Spanish influence waned. The second wave of language infusion to the CDZ would come from the founding fathers of Jambangan - the resident Subanons who numbered in the "thousands." The Muslims' attempt to convert the Subanons into their Islamic religion was met with fierce resistance, and would never take root in their society. The Chavacanos who stayed behind, including many of the founding Jesuit priests who vowed to never forsake their thousands of converted subjects and their new-found religious outpost (prized as the southern-most Catholic stronghold in the entire Philippine islands), were by this time already living within the confines of Zamboanga and its people. www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=29843   (4035 words)

The Early History of Chavacano de Zamboanga Therefore, we consider VC to be the oldest form of Chavacano or Chabacano (another terminology used to describe the end result of a convergence of any language with Spanish) in the Philippines, albeit non-existent. The Jesuits and the Chavacanos of Zamboanga share a very long and special symbiotic existence, through good and bad times, even after they were recalled and expelled from their local mission-posts, and their eventual return. The third wave of language infusion to the CDZ would come from the Yakans, when the Jesuits commenced their conversion of the Basilan (Bacilan) Island nearby, a year or so after they arrived in Zamboanga. www.zamboanga.com /html/history_Chavacano_de_Zamboanga.htm   (4397 words)

Spanish language - TCP Poetry Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is an Iberian Romance language, and the fourth most-widely spoken language in the world according to some sources, while other sources list it as the second or third most spoken language. Spaniards tend to call this language español when contrasting it with languages of other states (for example: in a list with French and English), but call it castellano (Castilian, from the Castile region) when contrasting it with other languages of Spain (such as Galician, Basque, and Catalan/Valencian). Template:Spanish Spanish is one of the official languages of the United Nations and the European Union. www.criticalpoet.com /mediawiki/index.php/Spanish_language   (2763 words)

Salita Blog: News about Chabacano / Chavacano All of the languages indigenous to the area belong to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family. Open din at walang problema ang Chavacano sa pagboborrow ng mga dayuhang salita, kaya mas madali segurong nakapagcreate at nakarealize ang mga Pinoy ng isang tunay na 'wikang Filipino' kung ibinase ito sa Chavacano; wala nang issueng kailangang pag-isipan pa tungkol sa purismo; halos kahit ano ay puede kung vocabulario ang pag-uusapan. And sure other languages like Ilocano, Cebuano, Pangasinan, and all other long ignored native languages, can be accomodated and taught in their respective areas and lo and behold Chabacano would not threaten their existence. salitablog.blogspot.com /2004/07/news-about-chabacano-chavacano.html   (2106 words)

Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Chabacano is also spoken in sabah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) Sep 10 2004, 07:56 PM Chavacano, also called Zamboangueño and Chabacano, is a Spanish creole A number of Creole languages are based on the Spanish language. Chavacano is concentrated mostly in the provinces of Zamboanga Zamboanga refers to a place in western Mindanao in the Philippines. Chavacano, also called Zamboangueño and Chabacano, is a Spanish creole A number of Creole languages are based on the Spanish language. www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t17277.html   (4215 words)

Spanish Language - Spanish language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) People from bilingual areas might consider it offensive to call an language español, for that is an term that is chosen by Francisco Franco — during whose dictatorship an use of regional languages is forbidden — with because it connotes that Basque, Catalan with Galician are not languages of Spain. Classification with related languages Spanish is the member of an Romance branch of Indo-European, descended largely from Latin with having much in common with its European geographical neighbours. Spanish ceased to be an official language of an Philippines in 1987, with it is now spoken by less than 0.01% of an population; 2,658 speakers (1990 Census). blanche.skintoy.com /blanche/Congress_of_the_United_States/Spanish_language   (3454 words)

Portuguese Language - Portuguese language The language began to diverge from other Romance languages after an fall of an Western Roman Empire with an barbarian invasions in an 5th century, with started to be used in written documents around an 9th century. Ladino Ladino is the nearly-extinct language that is spoken by Sephardic Jews in an Iberian Peninsula. As in all Romance languages, an grammatical gender of inanimate entites is quite arbitrary, with often different from that used in sister languages. kapnography.clubblogs.com /.../December_8/Portuguese_language   (5687 words)

SPANISH CREOLE FACTS AND INFORMATION This hostility, combined with the isolation of mainland Equatorial Guinea and the proximity of São Tomé and Príncipe — just 400 km from the island — has assured the maintenance of its identity. If there is an indigenous language that has more Spanish borrowings than Quechua, it is another Native American language, also spoken in South America, the Guaraní language. Since 1992 the Education Ministry of Paraguay began to teach Guaraní in its pure form, differentiating from what is called ''jopará'', which is actually the real mother tongue of almost all Paraguayans. www.pvgames.com /Spanish_Creole   (1484 words)

Should Spanish be made an official language again? : Philippines : Gov.Ph : Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) And that language is the only national language Filipinos ever had.The first constitution of our republic was written in Spanish and it declared Spanish the official language of the Philippines. Spanish is a one of the global language that is spoken by 21 countries. Conclusion: Spanish language is dead and Filipinos are celebrating the loss of Spanish in the country. www.gov.ph /forum/thread.asp?rootID=42958&catID=6&page=3   (5582 words)

Ethnologue report for ISO 639 code: spa Aragonese and Asturian are distinct languages and are not in the same immediate branch of the genetic language family as Spanish. Both are official languages in Spain, and have language associations promoting their use. The following 10 languages have a name, alternate name, or dialect name (in at least one country) that is similar to the name for this ISO code, but they are not encompassed by the code. www.ethnologue.com /show_iso639.asp?code=spa   (484 words)

Comparative Linguistics & Literature Part II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) An important source is Barbara Grimes' Ethnologue: Languages of the World, where she traces the Austronesian roots of 171 Philippine languages. Tagalog, or Pilipino, the Philippine national language, has most of its nouns in Spanish, particularly the ones that were added because of the religious and cultural influence of the Spaniards. The purpose of this comparative study is simply to point out very superficially that Spanish plays a major role in the evolution of Philippine languages, and a lot of research is still needed to get into the particulars of this particular area of linguistic research. members.aol.com /EFaro26164/comp2.html   (1034 words)

Chabacano - Cavite's Dialect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) It almost become the national language of the country despite the emphasis and stress laid down by the government to make Pilipino (Tagalog) our national language. And more surprised are these foreigners to find that more than one hundred dialects are spoken by the people, all different and distinct from one another. While the Spaniards strove hard to learn Tagalog, the Filipinos, in turn, devised means of expressing their own by mixing Spanish with Tagalog as in the case of Cavite, Ternate and Manila; and Spanish with Visayan Ilongo and Moro, in the case of Zamboanga. www.rogersantos.org /chabacano.html   (770 words)

Ethnologue 14 report for language code:CBK The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000). It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). A creole with predominantly Spanish vocabulary and Philippine-type grammatical structure. www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=CBK   (134 words)

GovernmentJobs.com - Detailed Job Classification   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) LANGUAGE AND CULTURE SPECIAL SKILLS: To all applicants for the Human Services Specialist (Level II). Do you speak, read, and/or write one of the languages listed below, or do you know the African American and/or Native American cultures and want to be considered for a job using those skills. Do you want to be certified for having skills in a language other than English or knowledge of another culture? www.governmentjobs.com /view_job.cfm?JobID=24819&ViewSupp=Yes   (163 words)

Sun.Star Zamboanga - University professor launches new CD The CD was locally produced by the High Hatters Corporation to help preserve the Chavacano language, keeping the flame of this medium alive and glowing in the heart of every Zamboangueño. This is in support to the passion of the former city mayor Maria Clara "Caling" Lobregat in preserving the Chavacano language. The Zamboangaueños are encouraged to help support this project by getting their own copies of the CD, and in so doing we don't only give our generous support to this cause but we also get the pleasure in listening to the delightful music. www.sunstar.com.ph /static/zam/2005/12/04/news/university.professor.launches.new.cd.html   (391 words)

Job Bulletin Special Language and Culture Skills: These positions require the ability to speak, read, and/or write fluently in a language other than English, or knowledge of the culture. Applicants must complete and submit the Special Language and Culture Skills Certification Request in order to be considered for these positions. Applicants being considered for Special Language and Culture Skills positions shall be required. agency.governmentjobs.com /sacramento/job_bulletin.cfm?JobID=23318   (992 words)

Chavacano language: Information From Answers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer) Chavacano language is mentioned in the following topics: big5.xinhuanet.com /gate/big5/www.answers.com/topic/chavacano-language   (866 words)

Chavacano - MavicaNET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) This was especially true in the old days when Castilian influence rubbed off quite thickly on the people of that little Spanish town, now revered in prose as "un glorioso pedaza del corazon de Castilla" (a glorious pice of the heart of Spain). The Early History of Chavacano de Zamboanga - English Providing comprehensive information about Zamboanga City and its Chavacano people, beaches, islands, news, business, weather, and much more. www.mavicanet.com /directory/dan/2478.html   (136 words)

Search OLAC Archives - Chavacano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) alphabet corpus description dictionary discourse documentation grammar language lexicon linguistics morphology phonology recording speech syntax text description: Various descriptive and analytic texts regarding the Chavacano language, drawn from the Rosetta 1,000 Language Archive. description: A page from the Web edition of Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th edition) giving basic facts about the language (including population, location, alternate names, dialects, and classification) with notes on language use and... www.language-archives.org /tools/search?query=Chavacano   (83 words)

Christian INDEX of Arts > Movies > Titles > JESUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05) Watch the JESUS film in Chavacano language - Click on link to play in Real Player. Watch the JESUS film in Chechen language - Click on link to play in Real Player. Watch the JESUS film in Chhattisgarhi language - Click on link to play in Real Player. www.christian-index.com /directory/arts_movies_titles_jesus20.shtml   (238 words)

Languagelinks.org | Chavacano Lessons This is the Chavacano language spoken in Zamboanga Cityand Cotabato City. Feel free to comment and suggest on the Lessons. Inquire about our Chavacano Learning Primer (adapted from our highly successful Magbinisaya Kita Primer Module). www.languagelinks.org /lessons/chavacano/chavacano.html   (70 words)

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