Editing Chavacano (section)

===Ermiteño===

:En la dulzura de mi afán,
:Junto contigo na un peñon
:Mientras ta despierta
:El buan y en
:Las playas del Pasay
:Se iba bajando el sol.

:Yo te decía, "gusto ko"
:Tu me decías, "justo na"
:Y de repente
:¡Ay nakú!
:Ya sentí yo como si
:Un asuáng ta cercá.

:Que un cangrejo ya corré,
:Poco a poco na tu lao.
:Y de pronto ta escondé
:Bajo tus faldas, ¡amoratáo!

:Cosa que el diablo hacé,
:Si escabeche o kalamáy,
:Ese el que no ta sabé
:Hasta que yo ya escuché
:Fuerte-fuerte el voz: ¡Aray!

The following is a sample of Ermitaño taken from the April 1917 publication of ''The Philippine Review''. The poem was written by the Filipino Spanish-language writer [[Jesús Balmori]] (who also wrote other texts in Ermitaño),<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Balmori|first1=Jesús|title=Poema ermitense: El que ta pensá ele; Quilaya bos; Por causa del sirena|journal=The Philippine Review (Revista Filipina)|date=May 1917|volume=II|issue=5|pages=26|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/philamer/acp0898.0002.001/437}}</ref> and it is entitled "Na Maldito Arena":<ref name="1917 Revista"/>

<blockquote>Ta sumí el sol na fondo del mar, y el mar, callao el boca. Ta jugá con su mana marejadas com'un muchacha nerviosa con su mana pulseras. El viento no mas el que ta alborota, el viento y el pecho de Felisa que ta lleno de sampaguitas na fuera y lleno de suspiros na dentro...<ref name="1917 Revista">{{cite magazine|last1=Balmori|first1=Jesús|title=Na maldito arena (poema ermitense)|journal=The Philippine Review (Revista Filipina)|date=April 1917|volume=II|issue=4|pages=71–73|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/philamer/acp0898.0002.001/384}}</ref></blockquote>

According to Keith Whinnom's "Spanish contact vernaculars in the Philippine Islands" (1956), there were reportedly still an estimated 12,000 speakers in 1942 of Ermitaño. After World War II, much of Manila was destroyed and its citizens displaced. This variety is considered to be virtually extinct.