English and Spanish in Philippines
I would like to know the number of real speakers of English and Spanish in the Philippines.
English, according to some webpages is spoken by some 50% of the population. Is that true?
Spanish is spoken by some 3 million speakers. Tagalog (Filipino) is spoken as first or second language by a lot of people there. Tagalog is almost a Spanish creole (half of the vocabulary is Spanish). So, is it true that a Tagalog speaker can study Spanish in only one year?
<,Tagalog is almost a Spanish creole (half of the vocabulary is Spanish).>>
If Tagalog is a Spanish creole then English is a French creole...
French is a Latin-Germanic creole.
Hay aproximadamente 8.000 raíces españolas en tagalo, y alrededor de 6.000 raíces españolas en bisayo y otros dialectos filipinos. El sistema numérico en español, el calendario, el tiempo, etc. siguen siendo usados con leves modificaciones.
Algunas palabras arcaicas españolas se han preservado en tagalo y otras lenguas locales, tales como:
bapor (‘vapor’, barco),
kastila se utilizaba para referirse a los españoles (castellanos) y a su idioma.
kwarta (‘cuarta’),
pera (‘perra’ o ‘monedas’),
relos (‘reloj’, originalmente con el sonido francés de la j),
sabón, ‘jabón’ (la j se pronunciaba como el francés je),
baraha (‘baraja’, baraja de naipes),
lamesa/mesa (‘mesa’),
kaldereta (‘caldereta’, guiso de carne),
tinidor (‘tenedor’),
silya (‘silla’),
baso (‘vaso’),
bankito (‘banqueta’ silla pequeña),
Spanish is just a testimonial language in Philippines. They now prefer speak English. So the 50% figure is likely to grow in the future while Spanish is fading away.
<<So, is it true that a Tagalog speaker can study Spanish in only one year? >>
This is something i would like to know as well.
Spanish is just a testimonial language in Philippines. They now prefer speak English. So the 50% figure is likely to grow in the future while Spanish is fading away.
President of Philippines is trying to re-introduce Spanish in schools. Perhaps not everything is lost for Spanish in Philipines.
Who cares about the Philippines anyway? It's an insignificant garbage hole. I feel ashamed to have them in my language sphere rather than proud.
If it's a garbage hole then why did USA invade the Philippines?. I always wondered that. Was USA envious of a decadent empire like the Spanish one so they stole from them one of their last territories? Now USA has a lot of Filipinos speaking English and migrating to their country.
Spanish in the Philippines is simply overrated.
Spanish is the language of the elites in Philippines
Sabemos todos que el idioma de las elites filipina es inglés.
We all know that the language of the elites in the Philippines is English.
English is a mainstream language in Philippines but Spanish is spoken only by very rich people in Philippines like the President herself for example.