do people in philipines?

Question

talk spainish?

Answer 1

Well since the Philippines was conquered by Spain, there is alot of Spanish influence in the Philippines. There are a lot of different dialects in the Philippines. There are alot of Spanish words that are used in Tagalog which is a dialect. A lot of Filipinos have Spanish names. I not an expert on this subject , but I am a Filipina.

Answer 2

No, they don’t. The vast majority of the Filipinos in the Philippines don’t speak Spanish. The never did during Spanish colonial times even though the Spanish colonized the Philippines longer than their other colonies. They’re still speaking the same 120+ languages when Magellan and later on the Conquistador Legazpi came to shore in Mactan and other parts of Cebu with some foreign words from Spanish, Hokkien Chinese, and American English. And it’s languages like Tagalog, Illocano, Visayan, Cebuano, etc not dialects since they’re from different ethnic groups in the Philippines.
The Spanish colonizers only made a small minority in the Philippines when they colonized the Philippines. There are some areas of the P.I. that speak “Chavacano” but it’s crude form of Spanish not proper Castillian. The Philippines was the least colonized colony of the Spanish Empire compared to Puerto Rico, Pre-Castro Cuba/Miami, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay which has a lot of citizens who are of white European and Arab Christian (Lebanese and Syrian) ancestry. I’ve met more blonde and red haired/light eyed Cubans and Puerto Ricans than those other “Latin” American countries which is predominantly Native American Indian like Mexico and Central America.
When the Spanish priest came over to the Philippines, they discovered there weren’t a lot of Castilian (Spanish) speakers. So they found that it was easier to learn the local langauges like Tagalog, Illocano, Visayan, etc. when they were proselytizing the Philippine Indios into Catholicism. Even in Mexico, South America, and the Philippines, the Indios (Native American Indians and ethnic Malay groups) were still speaking their ancestral langauges. It was forbidden for the Philippine Indios to speak Spanish. The only people who originally speak Spanish in the Philippines were the original “Filipinos” (white Spanish colonists born in the Philippines) or the Indio sailors who sailed aboard the Spanish Galleon ships to Mexico to guard their ships from English and Dutch pirates. They were called Manilamen.

Answer 3

Girl, ur right! Tama ka(means you're right)! We don't fully understand and know all spanish, but we do have spamish mixed in tagalog. The way common filipinos, especially "manilenyos", say time is in spanish, the dining table is in spanish and many more. The spanish peeps that conquered my beloved land really influenced us not jsut by langugage, but the way we dress, the way we spend our days, our festivities and the way parents punish their kids. Yup ur reight, I've been whipped spanish-style. The chinese and sorounding coutries influenced the filipino culture too. For example, the national clothing for men is the "barong" a beautifully-desinged, elaborated and elegant top, was brought to us by the chinese people and I also beleive that the hobby of taking your shoes off before you enter a house was influenced to us by the japs.

NOTE: Since I grew up in the Philippines, I don't have a hard time in my spanish class.But I still have a B... oh well, have to improve that!

Answer 4

Not all and only very few do speak Spanish. Maybe some old educated people can because we were once under Spanish rule. I think some Universities still offer Spanish language classes like Universities that were once ran by Spaniards like colegio de san jose.

Answer 5

historically, people used to because they were forced to use the language. Nowadays, most Filipinos don't know Spanish but some of the words we use ar actually Spanish.

However, there are some places in the Philippines where people use Spanish as another language.

Answer 6

Yes they do and over 100 different dialects of their own language. They are also the 2nd largest English speaking country in the world!

Answer 7

as in fluently? maybe... they could have taken it up or someone taught them... but the Filipino language itself has been influenced a lot by Spanish and a lot of the words and terminologies are Spanish in origin... Also, there is another language in the country called Chavacano, which is known to be "slang" Spanish... and speakers of that language can carry a decent conversation with Spanish speakers ;)

Answer 8

hey Cbopxb! don't interchange language and dialect. they have distinct meanings. Tagalog is a language the same way as English is. Dialect is an offshoot of a language, ie, American English is a language and Louisiana English is its dialect. Manila's Tagalog is a dialect, Batangas Tagalog etc...

Answer 9

there are a lot of similar words between spanish and tagalog so sometimes they can relate. me, i can speak spanish because i am living here in central america for 3 years already.

Answer 10

in the province there is a language called chavakano which is like spanish.. and some words are spanish like azul we just changed some letters... azul turned to asul which is blue and jabon turned to sabon which is soap... aslo time and numbers....