‘Estadounidismos’: A New Variety of Spanish
More and more people in the United States speak Spanish; in fact, it is the second most spoken language in the country. As a consequence,
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August 25, 2017
The Birth of a Language
Some time ago we wrote about code switching, and how this informal phenomenon manifests itself in virtually infinite ways. In that post, we mentioned Spanglish,
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May 8, 2014
What Is Code-switching?
In linguistics, code-switching refers to the simultaneous and syntactically and phonologically appropriate use of more than one language. It is fairly common to hear multilingual
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January 21, 2014
A Sonorous Atlas of the Spanish Language
To celebrate the Sixth International Conference on the Spanish Language, which took place last week in Panama, the Spanish newspaper El País had writers from
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October 30, 2013
English: The New Latin?
English is the one language that can be found in every corner of the world. It is taught and recognized on every continent and its
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July 31, 2009
What is a Linguistic Loan?
This type of word is one that is taken from one language and used in another without translation, demonstrating a lexical vacuum in the latter.
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February 26, 2009
The Rise of Spanglish
The term Spanglish came into existence between 1965 and 1970 and refers to any expression in Spanish that borrows parts of English, especially as substitutions
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October 3, 2008
