Katheleen Nez on sun 29 dec 02
John Rodgers said: "I moved to New Mexico, USA once and lived in a town that was largely Hispanic. I first thought that meant Spanish speaking among other
things. I learned that it was in reality some Spanish, mostly Spanglish,
and the Spanish that was used was not the Spanish from south of the
border. So the users of Northern Spanish and the users of Southern
Spanish struggled sometimes to understand each other clearly.
It was all very illuminating to me..."
Gee, you know I think the only people you’re gonna find who speak pure Castilian here in Northern New Mexico are the older generation of Hispanics who live in the remoter mountain villages. As time goes on and more and more younger Northern New Mexico Hispanics get acculturated, there is a distinct distillation of the language from the original mother tongue through the influence of TV and just the dominant educational system (English). Northern New Mexico Spanish has pretty much always been separate from what was spoke in Mexico over the centuries, and I’m sure you’ll find a similar degree of separation between the Spanish spoken in Mexico City and the spanish spoke amongst the Mestizo populations - more dillutions over time (they’ve been in NoNM since 1540, got chased out in 1680, and returned in 1692) And you’ll find this in many of the other major language groups (how many types of German are there?…) And unfortunately amongst my own Native peoples. Navajo children don’t learn their native language to the degree they once did - acculturation and later MTV made sure of that. And as the older populations disappear, a lot of the more obscure lingual references disappear with the
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