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How far back into your country's history could you go without needing a translator? (lemm.ee)

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I asked this before elsewhere, but I thought it led to some interesting answers.

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[–] wabafee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably around 1800s around this time Philippines would still be under Spain most people would be talking Spanish language, people still speak their local languages but will probably be too deep compared to what we have now. Which has a lot of code switching. Around WW2 killed a lot of Spanish speaking people and most importantly publications that pretty much ended Spanish language in Philippines. Though it was already in decline to due USA directive to use English for everything, including education, present day though we still use borrowed words and some parts of the country even have a creole version of the Spanish language.