Native Speakers and Dialects
| Chavacano dialects | Places | Native speakers |
|---|---|---|
| Zamboangueño (Zamboangueño Chavacano) | Zamboanga City, Basilan Province, Sulu Province, Tawi-Tawi Province, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga Sibugay, Semporna, Sabah, | 600,000 (Zamboanga City Alone) |
| Caviteño (Chabacano di Nisos) | Cavite City | 200,000 |
| Cotabateñ (Chavacano de Cotabato) | SOCCSKSARGEN | 20,500 |
| Castellano Abakay (Chavacano de Davao) | Davao Region | 18,000 |
| Ternateño (Bahra) | Ternate | 7,000 |
| Ermiteño (Chabacano de Ermita) | Ermita District | Extinct |
Read more about this topic: Chavacano Language
Famous quotes containing the words native and/or speakers:
“Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.... I derive more of my subsistence from the swamps which surround my native town than from the cultivated gardens in the village.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the ‘creativity of language,’ that is, the speaker’s ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately understood by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are ‘familiar.’”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)