Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish - Ruben Cobos - Paperback

"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."--BOOK JACKET.Cobos, Ruben is the author of 'Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish - Ruben Cobos - Paperback' with ISBN 9780890131428 and ISBN 0890131422.