Re: Spanish /h/

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:59:55 +0000, Chris Bates
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> I wasn't aware that lots of people in the phillipines still spoke
> Spanish. I know that there was a massive amount of borrowing into
> Tagalog from Spanish (which incidentally is very confused for someone
> who already speaks Spanish... I kept wanting to "adjust" the words to
> proper Spanish pronounciation lol), but I was under the impression that
> after the years of American occupation that English was the other major
> language along with Tagalog now.
Well, no, not a lot of people do, but there are estimates of 10% to 2%
who speak it. Again, mostly landowning classes or those whose families
were into business there. It's essentially the dialect of the upper
class, or those whose families had status (mind you, not all of the
Philippine upper class would've spoken it, there are plenty of
families of Chinese descent with status there). Supposedly, according
to my grandmother, some of our Family speaks, it, but for the life of
me, I wouldn't know who. Although it makes sense as apparently my
grandmother's and my grandfather's families all descend from
landowning families. My grandmother says that her grandmother spoke
Spanish and was a Spaniard.


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