Is it Spanish or Portuguese?
One of the things that I love about Chabacano is the many mysteries surrounding it. I have recently found out that onde is actually a portuguese word for where. However, it is a word that can also be found in the Spanish of certain groups of people such as rural folk in Latin America. This though is not in informal Spanish word. In fact it can be found in the Diccionario de la Academia Real de la Lengua Española which is like the official Spanish dictionary.
One Spanish student from the WordReference Language Forums asked about the word Onde. She heard her coworkers from Guatemala ask her, "Onde Estaba?" Of course, being a non native speaker, she didn't understand this and went to the WordReference Language Forums to seek the meaning of this word. Some people pointed that onde is Portuguese. Others said that onde also exists in Spanish, even suggesting the possibility that it is old Spanish like the word Ansina.
Here is an example of how it is used in Spanish along with their Chabacano translations::
¿Ónde podrá estar?
Onde man gaha aquel?
No sé ónde lo dejé.
No sabe yo onde yo conakel ya deja.
So is it Spanish or Portuguese?
What amazes me is the possibility that the language that I speak has such colorful roots. I honestly could not care less if it came from Spanish, Portuguese, or even if our ancestors just misheard it. Oh, but what I would give to go back in time to know...
Sources:
http://forum.wordreference.
http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/
http://www.wordreference.com/
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