A dictionary of New Mexico and southern Colorado Spanish

by Ruben Cobos

The Spanish spoken in rural areas of New Mexico and southern Colorado can be described as a regional type of language made up of archaic sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish; Mexican Indian words, mostly from the Nahuatl; a few indigenous Rio Grande Indian words; words and idiomatic expressions peculiar to the Spanish of Mexico (the so-called mexicanismos); local New Mexico and southern Colorado vocabulary; and countless language items from English which the Spanish-speaking segment of the population has borrowed and adapted for everyday use. Dr. Rubin Cobos, in 1983, produced the work A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish. Over the past two decades he has continued his research in an effort to revise that important volume.

189 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983