New Mexican English
| English in New Mexico | |
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| Region | New Mexico |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
English in New Mexico is the collective set of local varieties of Western American English spoken in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Neighboring languages in the region include New Mexican Spanish, Navajo, and numerous other Native American languages and dialects.
After the Mexican–American War, New Mexico and all its inhabitants came under the governance of the English-speaking United States, and for the next hundred years, English speakers increased in number. The numbers increased especially thanks to the trade-routes of the Old Spanish Trail and the Santa Fe Trail. New Mexico was culturally isolated after the New Mexico Campaign during the American Civil War. Aside from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, the isolation was similar to when New Mexico was culturally isolated from the rest of Spanish America. In 1910, English became the more widely spoken language in New Mexico, however New Mexican Spanish is popular and still spoken throughout the state and, as such, is given a special status of recognition. After statehood, the Spanish dialect continued to evolve, alongside newcomers, thanks to increases in travel, for example, along U.S. Route 66. Some words, such as coyote, have become loanwords into American English after becoming so prevalent in Spanish-influenced New Mexican English.
Several varieties of English in New Mexico have been identified, with varying degrees of documentation. A variety of Chicano English, known as Northern New Mexico Chicano English, is primarily spoken by people of Hispanic descent and is a subset in this region. This is related to a Spanish contact variety of English known as Northern New Mexican English. In addition, linguist Damián Wilson has described an Albuquerque ("Burqueño") variety of English. Such a Burqueño speech variety has gained wider attention by being parodied in two viral YouTube videos, "Shit Burqueños (New Mexicans) Say," produced in 2012 by the New Mexican entertainment group Blackoutdigital.
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