Editing Chavacano (section)

{{short description|Spanish-based creole of the Philippines}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Chabacano
| altname          = Chabacano
| nativename       = 
| states           = [[Philippines]]
| ethnicity        = {{plainlist|
*[[Zamboangueño people|Zamboangueño]]
*[[Spanish Filipino]]}}
| speakers         = 700,000 native speakers of Zamboangueño; 1.2 million of Zamboangueño as a second language;<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Rubino|2008|p=279}}</ref><!--Ethnologue's source, Rubino 2008, refers only to Zamboangueño, a subset of Chavacano-->
| date             = 1992
| ref              = <ref>[https://southeastasiaglobe.com/spanish-in-the-philippines/ HOLA Y BIENVENIDOS By Richard Collet. February 19, 2020. (Publisher: GLOBE)]</ref><ref name="cervantes">[http://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/anuario/anuario_98/moreno/cuadro03.htm Número de hispanohablantes en países y territorios donde el español no es lengua oficial] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429103156/http://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/anuario/anuario_98/moreno/cuadro03.htm |date=29 April 2012 }}, [[Instituto Cervantes]].</ref>{{Update span|date=July 2023}}
| familycolor      = Creole
| fam1             = [[Spanish-based creole language|Spanish-based creole]]
| region           = [[Zamboanga City]] and [[Basilan]] (Zamboangueño and Basileño), [[Cavite City]] (Caviteño) and [[Ternate, Cavite]] (Ternateño/Bahra)
| nation           = [[Regional language]] in the [[Philippines]]
| agency           = [[Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino]]
| iso3             = cbk
| glotto           = chav1241
| glottorefname    = Chavacano
| lingua           = 51-AAC-ba
| script           = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[Spanish alphabet]])
| map              = Chavacano language map.png
| mapcaption       = {{legend|#c12939|Areas where Zamboangueño Chavacano is mainly spoken}}
| notice           = IPA
}}
'''Chavacano''' or '''Chabacano''' ({{IPA|es|tʃaβaˈkano}}) is a group of [[Spanish-based creole languages|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]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/cbk|title=Chavacano|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2018-11-16|language=en}}</ref> Chavacano is the only Spanish-based [[Creole language|creole]] in [[Asia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.zamboanga.com/history/history_chabacano_versus_related_creoles.htm|title=The Early History of Chavacano de Zamboanga: Chabacano versus related creoles|website=www.zamboanga.com|access-date=2018-11-16}}</ref> The 2020 Census of Population and Housing counted 106,000 households generally speaking Chavacano.

The one responsible{{clarify|date=October 2023}} for this Spanish creole was Don [[Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera]], then governor of Panama, who was also responsible for settling Zamboanga City by employing Peruvian soldiers and colonists. There was an Asian-American route, which led to traders and adventurers carrying silver from [[Peru]] through [[Panama]] to reach [[Acapulco]], [[Mexico]] before sailing to [[Manila]], Philippines using the famed [[Manila galleon]]s.

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 language|Spanish]], their grammatical structures are generally similar to other [[Philippine languages]]. Among [[Languages of the Philippines|Philippine languages]], it is the only one that is not an [[Austronesian language]], but like [[Malayo-Polynesian languages]], it uses [[reduplication]].

The word ''{{Wikt-lang|es|chabacano|Chabacano}}'' is derived from Spanish, roughly meaning "poor taste" or "vulgar", though the term itself carries no negative connotations to contemporary speakers.