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|[[File:Carabao pajagat.JPG|center|500px]]<br>This picture was taken in [[Zamboanga City, Philippines|Zamboanga City]]. The carabao is pulling the [[pajagat-|pajagat]] or sleigh. The man manages the carabao with the [[pamitik-|pamitik]] that he is holding. The big basket on the [[pajagat-|pajagat]] is the [[Canastro-|Canastro]]. That's where the cargo goes. The yoke on the carabao's neck is called the [[ayugo-|ayugo]].

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*El [[hombre-|aguanta]] ta [[aguanta-|aguanta]] con el [[pamitik-|pamitik]], conectao na naris del carabao. Dos [[pitik-|pitik]] para manda bira derecha con el carabao. Y un halida para manda por escerda. El carabao ta hala con el pajagat. El canastro ensima del pajagat. El dalaydayan del pajagat conectao na ayugo na tangkugo el carabao. El [[pandiit-|pandiit]] amo aquel na [[pescuezo-|pescuezo]] del carabao. [[Aguantao-|Aguantao]] quel na [[ayugo-|ayugo]].

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Chavacano is the language of the Zamboangueños. Some refer to the language of the Zamboangueños as chabacano, which the Zamboangueños do not mind, as some of them refer to chavacano as chabacano. However, it is commonly accepted that if you are officially referring to the language of the Zamboangueños, then you might as well call it chavacano. Many zamboangueños pronounce the letters "V" as "B" , the "F" as "P" and the "Z" as "S". However they may say "chabacano" but they will write it as "chavacano", they'd say "prio" but they will write it down as "[[frio.|frio]]" or say "crus" but correctly write it down as "[[cruz.|cruz]]".  

Man ayudahan kita para el lenguaje chavacano di aton ay hinde muri.

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=Why it is Officially Chavacano and not Chabacano=

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In the spanish language, the word chabacano is not referred to as a language. The word chabacano or chabacana is defined as: Coarse, unpolished, ill-finished. And in Mexico, chabacano is a kind of Apricot (fruit). The word Chabacana is an insipid kind of plum.

 

The people of Zambaonga, being a proud bunch of people, who just helped the spaniards build the fort ([http://www.zamboanga.com/history/history_zamboanga.htm June 23, 1635]) and in the process developed the dialect, wanted to "own" this unique new language and hence baptized it as CHAVACANO. The word chabacano was derogatory. The people of Zamboanga were proud of their new language, the language of Chavacano.

 

The word CHAVACANO is only as old as the chavacano language itself. The word Chavacano is not a spanish word. The people of Zamboanga "coined" the word.

 

In the Philippines there were a handful of dialects that were developed in the areas where the spaniards had employed several indegenous people from different areas with different dialects. These workers had to communicate using the spanish language as the common denominator. These "new" dialects were referred to by the spaniards as CHABACANO, meaning "un-refined, coarse, or unpolished" form of spanish. The communities of [[Ternate, Cavite, Philippines|Ternate]] - Ternateños, [[Ermita cebu city philippines|Ermita]] - Ermitaños, and [[Cavite City, Cavite, Philippines|Cavite City]] - Caviteños:  did not "coin" their new found dialects. The dialects were called by the spaniards as the "Chabacano" of the spanish language and hence these communities proceeded to call their new dialects as "Chabacano".

 

 

 

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=[[Example-|Examples]] of chavacano words in a [[sentence-|sentence]] - [[Ejemplo-|Ejemplos]] de chavacano [[palabras-|palabras]] na un [[frase-|frase]] o [[oracion-|oracion]].=

|valign=top|[[File:Borracho.jpg|300px]]<br>Maga borrachon bien tomao gayot. The drunkards are really drunk.

|Valign=top|[[File:Back To School by Erik de Castro.jpg|300px]]<br>Maga estudiante ta anda na escuela. The students are going to school.

|Valign=top|[[File:Lavandera washing clothes.jpg|300px]]<br>El [[Lavandera-|lavandera]] ta lava [[ropa-|ropa.]] The laundry woman is washing clothes.

**Tiene bes el [[amo.|amo]], ta toma [[ventaja.|ventaja]].  

|[[File:Cania ma tunuk.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Cania-|Cania]] ma [[tunuk-|tunuk]].

|[[File:Ringworm Bush (Cassia alata) Akapulco.jpg|200px]]<br>[[Flores-|Flores]] y [[hojas-|hojas]] del akapulco.

|[[File:Bankoro_noni.jpg|200px|link=Bankoro]]<br>[[Hojas-|Hojas]] y [[Frutas-|Frutas]] de [[Bankoro]]

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