The Spanglish Explosion
The progression of immigration has shown how children of the native speakers of one language are more than able to use their parents' mother tongue and acquire one of their own also - fusing the two and so creating a completely different vocabulary as well as acquiring the fluency to be able to interchange between the two languages effortlessly.
Spanish + English = Spanglish
Spanglish, the fusion of Spanish and English, is used primarily by the Hispanic population of the United States, who are exposed to both languages. This is a product of close border contacts or large bilingual communities, such as those along the United States-Mexico border and throughout Southern California, northern New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and in New York City.
The term Spanglish was reportedly coined by Puerto Rican linguist Salvador Tió in the late 1940s. Ti¢ also coined the term inglañol (taken from the Spanish words inglés and español) in which English is affected by Spanish; but this term did not receive the same popularity as Spanglish.
The word Spanglish is a popular name for the resulting fusion of the two languages, but not a technical one. Linguists refer to Spanglish by a variety of terms: code mixing, code switching, loanwords, language contact, and more generally, bilingualism. Linguists don't find the term Spanglish to be useful in discussing these progressions, because it groups together linguistic phenonema that don't necessarily belong together. Linguistically speaking, many things that get commonly labeled as "Spanglish" are very different from each other. For example, the speech of a fully bilingual Spanish/English speaker in the USA, who switches between Spanish and English phrases spontaneously in the middle of a sentence, is linguistically something very different from the speech of a Spanish monolingual in Puerto Rico whose native vocabulary has many words and expressions that come from the literal translation of English. >>
The progression of immigration has shown how children of the native speakers of one language are more than able to use their parents' mother tongue and acquire one of their own also - fusing the two and so creating a completely different vocabulary as well as acquiring the fluency to be able to interchange between the two languages effortlessly.
Spanish + English = Spanglish
Spanglish, the fusion of Spanish and English, is used primarily by the Hispanic population of the United States, who are exposed to both languages. This is a product of close border contacts or large bilingual communities, such as those along the United States-Mexico border and throughout Southern California, northern New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, and in New York City.
The term Spanglish was reportedly coined by Puerto Rican linguist Salvador Tió in the late 1940s. Ti¢ also coined the term inglañol (taken from the Spanish words inglés and español) in which English is affected by Spanish; but this term did not receive the same popularity as Spanglish.
The word Spanglish is a popular name for the resulting fusion of the two languages, but not a technical one. Linguists refer to Spanglish by a variety of terms: code mixing, code switching, loanwords, language contact, and more generally, bilingualism. Linguists don't find the term Spanglish to be useful in discussing these progressions, because it groups together linguistic phenonema that don't necessarily belong together. Linguistically speaking, many things that get commonly labeled as "Spanglish" are very different from each other. For example, the speech of a fully bilingual Spanish/English speaker in the USA, who switches between Spanish and English phrases spontaneously in the middle of a sentence, is linguistically something very different from the speech of a Spanish monolingual in Puerto Rico whose native vocabulary has many words and expressions that come from the literal translation of English. >>
