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Chavacano / Chabacano
Native to: Philippines
Region: Zamboanga City and Basilan (Zamboangueño and Basileño), Cavite City (Caviteño) and Ternate, Cavite (Ternateño/Bahra)
Ethnicity: Zamboangueño people, Spanish Filipino, Filipinos in Indonesia, Filipinos in Malaysia, Filipino Americans
Native speakers: (689,000 cited 1992)
Language family: Spanish-based creole

is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines. The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest concentration of speakers. Other currently existing varieties are found in Cavite City and Ternate, located in the Cavite province on the island of Luzon. Chavacano is the only Spanish-based creole in Asia.

The different varieties of Chavacano differ in certain aspects like vocabulary but they are generally mutually intelligible by speakers of these varieties, especially between neighboring varieties. While a majority of the lexicon of the different Chavacano varieties derive from Spanish, their grammatical structures are generally similar to other Philippine languages. Among Philippine languages, it is the only one that is not an Austronesian language, but like Malayo-Polynesian languages, it uses reduplication.

The word Chabacano is derived from Spanish, roughly meaning "poor taste" or "vulgar", though the term itself carries no negative connotations to contemporary speakers and has lost its original Spanish meaning.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chavacano
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamboangue%C3%B1o_people
https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/i.e.mackenzie/chavacano.htm
https://omniglot.com/writing/chavacano.php
https://www.geocurrents.info/cultural-geography/linguistic-geography/chavacano-a-spanish-based-creole-language-of-the-philippines
https://www.jw.org/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.robtheis.android.phrasebook.hv.bc&hl=en&gl=US

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