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In contrast, the number of English-speaking Filipinos was 896,258 (or 8.69% of the total population). Greater percentage of Spanish-speaking males compared to their English-speaking counterparts were found in Zamboanga, Manila, Isabela, Cotabato, Marinduque, Cagayan, Iloilo, Cavite, Albay, Leyte, Batangas, and Sorsogon.
May 15, 2021 · By Angelica Gutierrez | May 15, 2021. IMAGE PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. In history class, we’re often taught that the friars didn’t teach Filipinos to speak Spanish because they wanted us to remain ignorant. But if that’s true, why is it that former colonies in North and South America like Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela have Spanish as ...
Currently around 0.5% (<500,000) of the 110 million Filipinos speak Spanish. Though the use of Spanish has greatly diminished on the islands, most languages used in the nation including English have been greatly influenced by Spanish throughout history in many ways.
According to a 2020 census, only about 400,000 Filipinos, or less than half a percent of the population, can speak Spanish well. This is a steep decline from 1998, when, according to data, there were 1.8 million Spanish speakers, including those who spoke Spanish as a secondary language.
In 2020, about 400,000 Filipinos (less than 0.5% of the people) could speak Spanish well. [5] The Academia Filipina de la Lengua Española controls the Spanish language in the Philippines.
Aug 9, 2019 · Currently only about 0.5 per cent of the Philippines' 100 million-strong population speaks Spanish; however, it's still home to the most number of Spanish speakers in Asia.
Below are the numbers of Filipinos who speak the following 20 languages as their native languages based on the 2020 Census of Population and Housing by the Philippine Statistics Authority. The number of speakers of each language is calculated from the reported number of households by assuming an average household size of 4.1 persons as of 2020.
