Bien Chabacano

Is the word 'barriga' used in Spanish to refer to the stomach as a body part? For example, can you use the word 'barriga' when saying that your stomach hurts?  Based on what I can read online about this topic, the term 'barriga' in Spanish is used like the term 'belly' in English.  In Chabacano, the term 'barriga' is used when referring to the stomach. So you can definitely say duele el de mio barriga . While the term 'estomago' also exists, barriga is more commonly used. Since following the Pinoy in Equatorial Guinea and Cinco Filipinos channel in Youtube, I have noticed several instances wherein the characters tend to speak Spanish using Tagalog grammar. Sometimes, the words that they use seem to sound like Chabacano and not Standard Spanish. In this episode of Pinoy in Equatorial Guinea, Kuya Rowel visits the house of one of his friends in Equatorial Guinea. At the 3:05 mark, he plays with the baby Ilan and asks him, "donde tu ba...

In the Tagalog language, the manner in which we say 'I have/you have' and 'there is/are' is through the same word: mayroon . In Chabacano, we use the word 'tiene'. For example, the sentence 'I have a cat' and 'there is a cat' are translated as 'tiene yo gato' and 'tiene gato'.  In Spanish, the word used would have been tener ( tengo ) and hay , respectively. Since following the Pinoy in Equatorial Guinea and Cinco Filipinos channel in Youtube, I have noticed several instances wherein the characters tend to speak Spanish using Tagalog grammar. Most of the time, their Spanish tends to sound like Chabacano.  In this episode of Cinco Filipinos, the entire cast visits a church and at the 08:10 mark, Kuya Jose tells the African kids to be careful as they were crossing the street. He tells them, "Espera ha, tiene coche, tiene tricycle." If they were in Zamboanga city, people would think he was speaking in Chabacano. The Pinoy ...