New Mexican Spanish is a unique dialect, a mixture of centuries-old Spanish with Indigenous words that evolved through historical isolation
'Hermanos' Fidel Trujillo, left, and Leo Paul Pacheco, look at the kitchen recently built with adobe next to the 1860s 'morada' de San Isidro, which is the main chapel and meeting point of their Catholic brotherhood, outside Holman, New Mexico, Saturday, April 15, 2023. New Mexican Spanish is as central to these communities' identity as their iconic adobe churches, and its best chance of survival might be through faith, too. HOLMAN, N.M.
Spanish explorers and missionaries first reached these valleys isolated between mountains, deserts and plains at the end of the 16th century. Pushed back south by the Pueblo Native Americans, they resettled a century later – and their language evolved to incorporate not only words carried from medieval Spain but also a mixture of expressions derived from Mexican Spanish, Native forms and eventually some English after the territory became part of the United States.
He has been working on teaching Spanish not as foreign but as a heritage language that has developed into something uniquely New Mexican. Its best chance for survival is prayer. Traditional devotions have been passed down through generations by hermanos, easily memorized because of their ballad-style rhyming. Sometimes they are transcribed into notebooks called “cuadernos.” In an adobe niche in a chapel in Holman, some of the handwritten notebooks are 120 years old.
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