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New Mexican Spanish (Spanish: español neomexicano) refers to the varieties of Spanish spoken in the United States in New Mexico and southern Colorado.It includes an endangered [1] traditional indigenous dialect spoken generally by Oasisamerican peoples and Hispano—descendants, who live mostly in New Mexico, southern Colorado, in Pueblos, Jicarilla, Mescalero, the Navajo Nation, and in other ...
The Navajo [a] or Diné, are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.. With more than 399,494 [1] enrolled tribal members as of 2021, [1] [4] the Navajo Nation is the largest federally recognized tribe in the United States; additionally, the Navajo Nation has the largest reservation in the country.
New Mexican Spanish also contains loan words from the Puebloan languages of the upper Rio Grande Valley, Mexican-Spanish words (mexicanismos), and borrowings from English. [12] Grammatical changes include the loss of the second person plural verb form, changes in verb endings, particularly in the preterite , and partial merging of the second ...
Navajo or Navaho (/ ˈ n æ v ə h oʊ, ˈ n ɑː v ə-/ NAV-ə-hoh, NAH-və-; [4] Navajo: Diné bizaad [tìnépìz̥ɑ̀ːt] or Naabeehó bizaad [nɑ̀ːpèːhópìz̥ɑ̀ːt]) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America.
This is a category pertaining to Navajo subjects including the Navajo Nation and Navajo members of the Colorado River Indian Tribes. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
The community is served by Navajo Routes 12 and 31. Route 12 leads south 12 miles (19 km) to Fort Defiance, Arizona, and north 6 miles (10 km) to New Mexico State Road 134 in Crystal, while Route 31 leads east into the Chuska Mountains. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Navajo CDP has a total area of 2.25 square miles (5.8 km 2), all ...
Anasazi is a Navajo word that means Ancient Ones or Ancient Enemy, hence Pueblo peoples' rejection of it (see exonym). [4] Pueblo is a Spanish term for "village". When Spanish conquest of the Americas began in the 16th-century with the founding of Nuevo México, they came across complex, multistory villages built of adobe, stone and other local ...
The Spanish Crown proclaimed Spanish to be the language of the empire; indigenous languages were used during the conversion of individuals to Catholicism. [65] Because of this, indigenous languages were more widespread than Spanish from 1523 to 1581. [65] During the late sixteenth century, the prevalence of the Spanish language increased. [65]