Variety of Spanish spoken and native to the Philippines
This article is about Spanish as used in the Philippines. For a more general overview of the language, see Spanish language in the Philippines.
Not to be confused with Chavacano, Spanish Filipino, or Spanish people of Filipino ancestry.
Philippine Spanish
español filipino castellano filipino
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲolfiliˈpino], [kasteˈʎanofiliˈpino]
Native to
Philippines
Speakers
Native: 4,000 (2020)[1] Proficient: 400,000 (2020)[2] Total: 1 million (2014)[3]
Language family
Indo-European
Italic
Latino-Faliscan
Romance
Italo-Western
Western
Ibero-Romance
West Iberian
Castilian
Spanish
Philippine Spanish
Early forms
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Italic
Old Latin
Vulgar Latin
Proto-Romance
Old Spanish
Early Modern Spanish
Writing system
Latin (Spanish alphabet)
Official status
Recognised minority language in
Philippines
Regulated by
Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language
Language codes
ISO 639-3
–
IETF
es-PH
Spanish language
A manuscript of the Cantar de mio Cid, 13th century
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Pronouns
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conjugation
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Caribbean
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Palenquero or Palenque
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Philippine Spanish (Spanish: español filipino or castellano filipino)[4] is the variety of standard Spanish spoken in the Philippines, used primarily by Spanish Filipinos.
Spanish as spoken in the Philippines contains a number of features that distinguishes it from other varieties of Spanish, combining features from both Peninsular and Latin American varieties of the language. Philippine Spanish also employs vocabulary unique to the dialect, reflecting influence from the native languages of the Philippines as well as broader sociolinguistic trends in Spanish, and is considered to be more linguistically conservative and uniform than Spanish spoken elsewhere.
Officially regulated by the Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language (AFLE), up to a million people in the Philippines are claimed to be either proficient in or have knowledge of Spanish,[3] with around 4,000 people claiming Spanish as their native language,[1] although estimates vary widely.
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