Languages with highest number of Spanish loanwords?

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Languages with highest number of Spanish loanwords?

Postby Dtmont » Fri Apr 28, 2023 9:40 pm

Curious if anyone here knows what languages have the most Spanish loanwords? Yucatec Maya,Quechua,Galician, and Tagalog are ones that come to mind.
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Postby leosmith » Sat Apr 29, 2023 11:38 pm

Eliminating Indo-European languages for obvious reasons, the one I speak with the most borrowed Spanish words is Tagalog. Chavacano, which I don't speak, has even more, but it's considered to be a Spanish Creole, so maybe it doesn't count? Native Portuguese and Spanish speakers can understand Chavacano, and Chavacano speakers can understand Spanish. I understand it quite well because of my Spanish/Portuguese/Tagalog background. Native Portuguese speakers may understand it even better than native Spanish speakers who don't speak Portuguese, since some of the Chavacano pronunciations/word selections are more like Brazilain Portuguese than Spanish.
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Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Apr 30, 2023 5:39 pm

Didn't this topic have a lot more posts yesterday?
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Re: Languages with highest number of Spanish loanwords?

Postby leosmith » Sun Apr 30, 2023 6:38 pm

jeff_lindqvist wrote:Didn't this topic have a lot more posts yesterday?
I saw one in The Answer to Discussion Topics.
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Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Apr 30, 2023 9:06 pm

So did I, but that one appeared after half a dozen replies to this topic.
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Re: Languages with highest number of Spanish loanwords?

Postby Dtmont » Sun Apr 30, 2023 9:16 pm

jeff_lindqvist wrote:So did I, but that one appeared after half a dozen replies to this topic.


Wait did they delete the replies in favor of the post with the bad jokes, I'm confused.
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Re: Languages with highest number of Spanish loanwords?

Postby Iversen » Sun Apr 30, 2023 9:32 pm

This topic was mentioned at least three times in the thread with questions and answers - and I wrote my contribution to that thread without even checking the number of entries in this one.

But could the answer be either Galego or Catalá?
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Re: Languages with highest number of Spanish loanwords?

Postby tractor » Mon May 01, 2023 5:54 am

Iversen wrote: But could the answer be either Galego or Catalá?

Or maybe Caló?
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