Spanish dialect unique to portions of Colorado and New Mexico is fading away

Jeremy Jojola explores the history of the unique Spanish spoken in the region for hundreds of years as younger generations try to save it.
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[@Kekinho07]

I am a Mexican living in Northern New Mexico, listening to the hispanic elders from here speaking their spanish makes me feel nostalgic, their accent is so melodic and make you feel like you are talking to a long time friend, it is very welcoming. I feel sad this variant of spanish is loosing its strength, I feel honored to at least witness the beauty of this spanish before it disappears.

[@user-bu5rm8ik6m]

It sounds similar to the Northern Mexican Spanish of Sonora and Sinaloa where they also omit the “s” sound. Also the use of the word plebes.

[@danieldelrancho5749]

Yes it is in fact northern Mexican Spanish. And let me tell you guys that it will never die in the south west

[@maxwill6408]

There was an article in the National Geographic back in the mid 1970s on how the Spanish spoken in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado is so much different from the way it is spoken in the other areas in the USA settled by the Spanish. The research showed that language spoken in this area was the Spanish spoken by the first Spanish settlers of the 1600 thru the 1800. Because of the areas isolation the Spanish spoken by these people has not changed much.

[@ElRecopilador-wz9dn]

is not that different, it's just a little archaic, that's it

[@thekingofmoney2000]

Can’t forget about Texas! Our Spanish is also quite similar.

[@mdc3148]

It’s interesting though, because almost all of the settler families of the 16-1700’s were from old Mexico (New Spain), specifically Zacatecas. My family is from there and there are many archaic terms that are used there and not in modern Spain. Is it really that different?

[@Kat-fq4ei]

The first Spanish Colonial settlements were in northern NM since 1598. Settlers did not go back and forth from New Spain territories into New Mexico which was the northern most post in New Spain. Very distant, raiding Indians at every turn so it was dangerous survival. And difficult to attract settlers. Same with Texas and California. Spains government system was iron clad and very strict, travel was annual from Mexico City, taking months by military escourt. So the Spanish heritage/language brought from Spain to NM was preserved without much outside influence. This was early New World, some NMs just off the ships headed to different locaties from Vera Cruz. Others had lived in other territories of New Spain, as Territory of Nuevo Leon, Territory of Mexico, Territory of Nuevo Leon, Territory of Yucatan, Territory of Estramadura etc , but for a few years before making NM their home. So many times there was more connection to Spain than to distant territories in New Spain which were young colonies of Spain born after 1525. Additionally unlike territories such as Mexico City, (Kingdom of Mexico Territory) most Indians were unconquered and in the far north settlements, there was little contact with the Indians, each ethnicity retaining their heritage, religion and culture. So mestizo was not the culture. Once in NM, an isolated colonial society was the way of life until 1821. Americans mountain fur traders settled and commerce via Old Santa Fe Trail from Missouri, more so after 1846. Mexico brought few Mexicans after 1821, generally Mexican officials. New Mexico has two cultures, 424 years Spanish in the north and 140 years Mexican in the south, as those from Chihuahua, Sonora, Sinaloa began migration approx 1880 after the Mexican War, establishing villages in Mexico/US border areas. These have direct ties to Mexico culturally as well as family. And don't have a connection to northern New Mexico historically. Old Mexico is not historically correct. New Mexico got its name and territorial identity approx 1560, two and a half centuries before Mexico got its name as a nation in 1821. So the Territory of New Mexico predates the nation of Mexico.. Additionally New Mexico got its name from Spain, for new gold treasures and riches as possessed by the Aztec in Mexico City, which Spain hoped to discover, a new Mexico. Which obviously was a misnomer...

[@mdc3148]

@@Kat-fq4ei You seem to be conveniently forgetting that most of the founding families were Novohispanics (people from the wealthy Kingdom of New Spain, with Mexico City as capital, essentially modern Mexico) and most were Mestizos as well as Criollos who were NOT Peninsulares. Obviously they did go back and forth because I’m standing here as witness that my ancestors founded New Mexico, but my family is from Zacatecas!! It’s actually so hilarious to read your statement because very little of it is true. Modern Mexico was the heart of it all, and Oñate (the FOUNDER of New Mexico) was born in Zacatecas, and his wife was most definitely Mestiza because she was the granddaughter of the Aztec emperor 🤣 ALL of those families were essentially the Mexicans of today, no genetic difference at all, stop erroneous propaganda that says they were “straight from Spain to NM” and “NM is older”😆 that’s obviously wrong. Besides, most Mexican’s family lines are “straight from Spain” as well, but it doesn’t make them not Mexican. Even in the 17th century, the families that were recruited in the founding of Santa Cruz de la Cañada (the second Villa in NM after Santa Fe) gave testimony that they were enlisted in Fresnillo in Nueva Galicia (modern Zacatecas) as settlers when Vargas was recruiting colonists. That is not old Spain! Further, the Kingdom of Mexico (Reino de México) was founded in the 1520’s, NM was about three quarters of a century newer. The name comes from the Mexica, which were rulers of Tenochtitlan, also commonly referred to as the Aztecs!! Their capital was MEXICO CITY, not in New Mexico😆 You’re essentially saying NM gots it’s name from the Spanish, but then saying a name which is from the Aztecs😂, so it’s not “named by or from Spain”, it’s named after actual Mexico!Read some actual history.

[@diabla973]

Hearing the Viejitos speak Spanish or Spanglish brings me sooooo much comfort. It reminds me of my great grandparents and even my grandmas and grandpas and tios and tias. My grandma chose not to teach her children Spanish because she and her siblings were hit for speaking Spanish in school and she was made to feel ashamed and did not want her children to go through the same thing. She always regretted this later in life. Most of my friends and family feel like English should always be spoken but I personally am ashamed that I do not speak Spanish and cannot communicate with other Spanish speakers. I am ashamed that I did not teach my children. I have even lost some of the words we grew up with for everyday things that I have started to incorporate back into my lingo so my kids use these words too. Estrabajo=washcloth, tadima= bench cuartitio=shed

[@psalm91.777]

Same here

[@e.g.1218]

Same this, also happened to my dad.

[@psalm91.777]

@@e.g.1218 my poor mom was traumatized by this

[@Olsjaz]

Nunca es demasiado tarde. Tus hijos, ahora que están pequeño, pueden aprender más rápido a hablar español. Inscríbelos en una escuela o programas para aprender español. Todavía hay tiempo y claro que si se puede.

[@psalm91.777]

@@mmecharlotte much love, 💕💕💕💕

[@Kat-fq4ei]

To hear a group of seniors in their eighties and nineties speak the local dialect is truly music to the ears..... Evan though they go from Spanish to English is remindful of bygone years.

[@tenuck67]

That's spanglish, spoken all over the southwest. The corruption of english words into spanglish is not music to the ears. The old settlers would be appalled that they are using a lot the spanglish, and not proper Spanish. It just shows the lack of formal education, and why New Mexico ranks at the bottom of the education ladder.

[@gilbertmartinez9073]

I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and we used a lot of those words like Troca, Lonche, and Quequi. My family is originally from Durango, Mexico.

[@misssilencedogood5968]

Yeah cause it is SPANGLISH. This broadcaster has no idea that Spanglish is not unique. It is an incorporation of American English words that crept into the language not that long ago.

[@thekingofmoney2000]

It’s Spanglish and it’s similar to varieties of Spanglish spoken in places like Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

[@thekingofmoney2000]

@@misssilencedogood5968 it’s been spoken for longer than just a few years. Spanglish is well over 100 years old.

[@mdc3148]

@@misssilencedogood5968 Spanglish has been a thing for a couple hundred years, probably 18th century but definitely 19th century. The first Mexican American author to write in English was Maria Ruiz de Burton who was born in 1832. This doesn’t even account for those in Gibraltar who also have mixed the two languages since the 1700’s.

[@el_equidistante]

People seem to be misunderstanding, this is not Spanglish those words are Anglicisms, it's not the same

[@jonesjen2419]

Love this ❤ makes me angry when “others” come and tell us we are speaking Spanish wrong. It’s literally our heritage to speak in this dialect.

[@adrianabotello9911]

pense que hablaban español antiguo, pero no usan "ansina" ni pronuncian las f parecido a una j baja. Es mas una mezcla de inlges y español, como el que usan en la frontera.

[@contactolequotidien8492]

Well it is not old Spanish it is not proper Spanish in the sense that there’s a lot of grammatical errors and anglicisms, it is a dialect because now it’s part of the heritage of the area, but these dialects do come from not so pleasant circumstances such as poverty and bad educational systems.

[@JF80001]

​​@@contactolequotidien8492 se llama vivir en la frontera, el Ingles se permeo a muchos terminos comunes. Y el ansina si se usa pero más por viejitos del lado sur de la frontera sobretodo en Sonora Baja California y Sinaloa que ya no sería fronterizo

[@LewisC-iu3hh]

Spanish has many accents and dialects! It’s a beautiful thing! Be proud of your Hispanic heritage! Viva la Hispanidad!

[@maureen9115]

My girlfriend got a doctorate in 17th century Spanish Literature, upon moving to the states from Spain. She discovered that the Spanish spoken in Northern New Mexico/ lower Colorado was more closely related to Old Spanish of that same period. This area was isolated due to the uprisings from native peoples, cutting off communication with lower Nuevo Espania. They had little influence from the outside world for a long time. Spain’s language evolved also with immigration & media. Native tongues & English had an influence in these northern parts, but their Spanish was closer to old Spanish than anywhere else, including Mexico. She wrote papers on this & was asked to escort the Prince of Spain to this area several years back.

[@JF80001]

I mean most of the words I heard here are typical border town NorthwestMexico word's, my grandma speaks that way, I learned to speak Spanish that way, I'm sure there is some differences but it is very similar, that said it would sound weird in central or southern Mexico

[@shaggyDchris]

My grandma is from costilla and is 82 years old, she is one of the last in my family that speaks this language....I want to learn it before its to late

[@pedroviriato9356]

Desde España te apoyamos que lo hagas y que tú abuela viva muchos años .

[@DUARD9896]

No digas "this language". Es el IDIOMA ESPAÑOL, que fue el primero en ser GLOBAL desde 1492, que fue el primero que llegó a gran parte de ESTADOS UNIDOS, y hablado hoy por 600 millones de personas en todo el mundo (500 millones son nativos y 100 millones lo aprendieron)

[@donnahilton471]

My sons' great grandparents were from New Mexico and spoke no English. They passed away over 20 years ago both in their 90s.

[@SpinsterSister]

Oh this makes me so happy so see my mother's people being recognized. Yes, we are different but not less nor ashamed for not being the same as the others...

[@simonsuarez5314]

Beautiful video. You can tell the reporter is very proud of his heritage. I hope this dialect of Spanish never dies. It is up to the younger generation to keep it alive. Love from Texas. Amor de Tejas.

[@scintillam_dei]

Gringos ruined Texas, California, Florida ET AL. Creationist Spain didn't have drug addicts everywhere, nor sodomites parading their perversion, nor confusion about genders.

[@xolotlmexihcah4671]

_"Queque, lonche, troca, tíquet/tiquete"_ are also part of the informal Mexican Spanish vocabulary. Those words aren't exclusive to New Mexico and Colorado; their usage is active from the North of Mexico all the way to Mexico City, Guadalajara, Michoacan, etc.

[@adrianabotello9911]

Es mas spanglish que español antiguo.

[@tenuck67]

totally agreed , it definitely not archaic spanish, it's modern spanglish. Hopefully, nobody learns to speak like that nowadays.

[@danzbutrfly]

Hopefully que si porque it is our dialect y es history tambien....@@tenuck67

[@aservantinbabylon]

Exactly.......it's just Americanized Spanish ....or Spanglish. I speak it all day long in rural TN.

[@danzbutrfly]

Aca in South Texas hablamos like that todo el tiempo of the day. I like hablando like that pero.... other people .....como el new generation .......are taught que it is a low mentality, possibly lower IQ los que hacen talk como we do. Pero it is not....es un dialect de nosotros. @@aservantinbabylon

[@jennybenjamin6103]

This is the Spanish of my father and grandmother and great Aunts in New Mexico. Such a heartwarming memory. Thank you for covering this historical gem of our culture.

[@agapitacordova3850]

I come to listen to these elders speak when I miss my grandparents. To me it’s a love language. I wish we had been raised speaking New Mexican. I really miss my grandparents 💕

[@Danielx_505]

My grandpa is from Chimayo and he has always used jején. I always wondered how it is spelled

[@retirementbootcampoff-grid237]

It has a name? Jejen.

[@quotidian5077]

My Grandmother and Grandpa spoke in the dialect. My Grandma and her sisters would always speak it with eachother. I miss them.

[@nenaj1]

💙💕💜

[@cameronmower847]

I'm about as white as they come, but I was raised in NM. Hearing the old folks use Spanish, makes me miss the old days. We had so many old Spanish ladies that took care of us and reprimanded us at church, I love hearing them speak. It's not really my culture, but it's representative of my formative experiences growing up where I did. I miss it!

[@Duquedecastro]

I think perhaps you mean as “Anglo” as they come. White Hispanics can also be as white as they come!

[@cameronmower847]

@@Duquedecastro this is very true! My mistake. I remember having to ask my mom what Anglo meant as a kid, because in Northern NM, white means pretty much nothing!

[@shine-on-tv8082]

I'm from Albuquerque NM and my ancestry has people from southern Colorado In it

[@dominicherrera4610]

This has me in tears, So miss my parents cause that's exactly how they were.❤❤❤❤

[@lifeaszahara3282]

God bless these gorgeous people ❤❤

[@sh0eh0rn4]

this is how the elders in my family speak. I learned Spanish later on, and sometimes I have trouble communicating with them. 😥😥

[@nog7933]

Okay, this actually hits hard for me. Growing up, my grandpa tried to teach me Spanish. The kids in school made fun of me because it wasn't Mexican Spanish, it was actually a mix of Galician and English. I later found this out from a customer at work that I could understand. I didn't want to learn anymore because I got bullied. I really wish I could have learned more from him.

[@klblea]

My grandparents lived in Las Vegas, New Mexico. They were precious and so was their language. ❤

[@weekendminitoystruckcarclu4632]

WOW what a great story to air for everyone to see. You hit the nail right on the head. Priceless just priceless.

[@josevarela5579]

My family is from Cimarrón New Mexico and that's how they speak. I love it.

[@BenjaminMartinez-em6ed]

I know some varelas de cima

[@vedeliatrujillo-hoey8253]

I was born and raised in NM, and moved to CO as an adult. As a nurse I can tell immediately if the person is from NM or the San Luis valley. Along with the words there is a distinct rhythm to the flow of the language. So sad we are losing a huge part of our culture.

[@genxx2724]

It’s the same with all regional accents and colloquialisms in the United States. Regional flavor is being lost. It’s sad. I think it’s due to television and movies. Everyone hears and models the California accent, or possible lack thereof. I’m not objective about the sound, because I live in CA.

[@psalm91.777]

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Sam-df9rs]

My mom's side of the family is from Santa Rosa, NM. When I heard the older couple speaking, it sounded exactly like my grandparents!

[@billbirkett7166]

There are so many unique dialects of various languages that are threatened with extinction now in the U.S. It reminds me of the English equivalents of these things on the east coast--the Smith Island and Tangier Island dialects of the Chesapeake Bay, and the unique dialects of the Outer Banks in North Carolina. You listen to some of these dialects, and it's like you are stepping into a time machine, they are completely unique dialects from hundreds of years ago that did not get eroded--when the old timers are talking together, your first impression is that these people must be from Britain. I think a lot of the linguistic landscape in the U.S. is actually like that--far, far more diverse than people are willing to understand. Not only with hundreds of unique Native American languages, but also unique dialects of many European languages that aren't English. Did you know that up until the early 1900's the dominant language of Northern New Jersey and the Catskills in New York was something called Jersey Dutch, spoken by a million people? In 1960, 1.5 million people in Louisiana still spoke Cajun French. People in northern New England still speak French dialects similar to Quebec. At one point at the turn of the 20th century, 10 million people across the heartland spoke German as their primary language.

[@psalm91.777]

I love languages, I am a native New Mexican

[@marcuscole1994]

Why are ppl in America losing their language

[@psalm91.777]

@@marcuscole1994 because we were discriminated against in our own land , by many . My own mother back in the sixties was punished for speaking Spanish and shamed from it.because of this my generation and many others were not taught our form of Spanish or we may have heard it spoken but didn't understand because they would not teach us , I got to grow up with hearing the old people speak but I didn't know Spanish and I learned Spanish from others not my New Mexican Spanish

[@nicedoppy2077]

@@psalm91.777 are u navajo ?

[@psalm91.777]

@@nicedoppy2077 part

[@sethhack899]

Mi padre nació en Del Norte, Colorado. Es triste decir, pero ahora pocos de mi familia hablan español todavía.

[@psalm91.777]

This made me cry I thought of my grandma, we are from Albuquerque

[@HispanicCausingPanic..........]

505

[@SRone45]

As a Texas German I feel this because our language is disappearing.

[@simonsuarez5314]

Keep it alive! Revive it!

[@scintillam_dei]

I met a racist Texan Austrian in Cambodia who knows only English yet wishes Hitler won. He belittled the Spanish, so I put him in his place.

[@misssilencedogood5968]

Yeah, parents are no longer teaching Spanish and instead English has taken over the language and formed this abomination of Spanglish. No one in my family speaks this way and it would be laughed at as "omg they don't know the correct Spanish word"??

[@rh81454]

Ja genau. I speak German but from modern day Germany when I lived there for a few years. Make sure to never lose it, and right down a journal (diary) of how you became a Texas Deutsch speaker so your family can have that journal later on after you pass. So many of us try to look for our ancestral past when its facing us right in the face atm. There's a small island off the coast of North Carolina that still has Americans speaking with an English accent. Best of luck.

[@LewisC-iu3hh]

We Hispanics created Tejas! We were there before any of you!

[@spaceace78801]

Why is this a story? This is the way we speak spanish in Texas. Anyone that was born in America and lives in Texas speaks exactly like this. This is South Texas dialect in EVERY south Texas town. Go out there and see for yourself.

[@oddskies]

It's slightly different. Although you're right us South Texans have particular things we say and accent, a lot of it is very different from the Spanish from NM/Colorado.

[@pomona7907]

I always wondered!!!! Thank you for this!

[@lawrenceelisalde5942]

My grandma is from Las Cruces/Mesilla and spoke like this 🥹🥹🥹

[@thepalehorse08]

I hope they do a documentary on the tejano spanish. It’s interesting. I have a tejano uncle who married into my fam. He’s had fam in Texas (since before it was Texas) and he sounds Cuban or some shit.

[@genxx2724]

Nice language. How sad that you had to use a vulgar word in this beautiful conversation.

[@rottengal]

he sounds “Cuban” to you because he probably had ancestors from Andalusia (cubans and andalusians have similar accents)

[@robjackson5245]

@@rottengal No they don't. They all sound like generic Spaniards from Castile or Leon. And yes Spaniards are white with Penelope Cruz English accents. Nuyoricans and Italians are non-white, Hispanic, Latin with Latin English accents.

[@Hualapai702]

My ancestors are the ANASAZI PUEBLOS. Now I’m from the HUALAPAI tribe. I also have HUICHOL & YAVAPAI APACHE.

[@wyrdglyph]

Spanish is my second language and I've gotten to a point in learning the language where I have to decide which dialect I'll speak. I've had many different types of teachers speaking different types of Spanish throughout my learning of the language, so I never had a solid jumping off point on what regional grammar and definitions I should use, just standard Spanish. I'm from the US and I'm looking to move to Colorado in the future. Even though it isn't what I grew up speaking, it'll be the Spanish of those around me. I am glad that they showed the dictionary because that is going to be my next purchase. I can't wait to see how much is similar to what I've learned as Mexican Spanish (words from Nahuatl) and which words come from English, and which ones come from the tribes who live(d) there (such as Navajo, Comanche, Apache, Ute, Pueblo, etc...). I may even start learning Navajo depending on how much that language influenced the Spanish dialect.

[@marcocisneros5988]

I don't speak this dialect but I'm from TIjuana, Mexico and I used to say No tengo dinero pal lonche, I never knew that a word from that dialect

[@thekingofmoney2000]

Lonche is common thought pretty much all the border states. A lot of these terms are just Spanglish terms used by many Mexican Americans throughout, Texas and the southwest.

[@CASHVideosTX]

This is done so very well. Great pkg. An example for all journalists on how to do a pkg correctly especially given the time.

[@spaniardmartinez6896]

In Capulin Colorado,we are pure Spanglish speakers!

[@elpencil]

I’ve met some New Mexico natives, especially older folk and they do have a unique accent and utilize words that are uniquely found in that region of the U.S.

[@Thelomes1]

The influence of Mexico!! thank you México.

[@LewisC-iu3hh]

Spanish empire! Viva la Hispanidad! Arriba el Imperio Espanol!! 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 ❤️

[@rottengal]

@@LewisC-iu3hhespaÑol*

[@LewisC-iu3hh]

@@rottengal you think I don’t know that? 🤦‍♂️ I’m in California, I was too lazy to add the Spanish symbol. I’m used to English. 🤦‍♂️

[@robjackson5245]

@@LewisC-iu3hh Hispanidad? There's nothing Hispanic about Spain period dumbass. You guys are white and no, there is no "Hispanic" as a non-racial aspect. That indicates a non-white Latin English accented thing. Spaniards are white with Penelope Cruz English accents. Nuyoricans and Italians are non-white, Hispanic, Latin with Latin English accents. Spaniards are white. Nothing else.

[@covidisascam4556]

​@@LewisC-iu3hh We are not Spanish. We are all Mexican. We are all part of the Mexican empire.

[@Lacteagalaxia]

Spain was presented in 18 states of usa that covered most of usa until 1.821 the large number of spanish named scattered throughout the usa IS notorius ; spanish presence in usa 1513-to1821

[@scintillam_dei]

Louis & Clark weren't pioneers. The Spanish were in Luisiana even before the French.

[@Kat-fq4ei]

@@scintillam_dei The Pacific Coast to Canada, California to Texas, Florida to Louisiana were all part of New Spain. Not to mention today's Mexico, Central America, Philippines, Cuba, Caribbeans, plus; all were different parts of la Nueva España. New Mexico predates Mexico as New Mexico got its name about 1550, over two centuries before Mexico became a nation 1821, getting its name Estados Unidos Mexicanos as the Republic of Mexico, under its Constitution at that time. Old Mexico is not historically correct.

[@Kat-fq4ei]

@@bigal2362 named New Mexico for new golden treasures they hoped to find as with the wealthy mexica Aztec in Mexico City... a misnomer, the Spanish were fooled. They should have stuck to Nueva Andalucia ...

[@xolotlmexihcah4671]

@@Kat-fq4ei You are tripping very hard. _New Mexico_ (state) and _Mexico_ (country) got their names thanks to _Tenochtitlán_ (Mexico City) and the _Mēxihcah_ (Aztecs) people, which are way older than New Mexico, Mexico or New Spain. Furthermore, _Mexico City_ administered _New Mexico_ for approximately 350 years, and that's because New Mexico was part of both New Spain and Mexico, with Mexico City as the capital of both entities. New Mexico wasn't administered directly from Madrid or Spain but via Mexico City! Mexico City is way closer to Albuquerque or Santa Fe than Washington or Madrid ever were, not only in geographical terms but also culturally, ethnically and historically.

[@Kat-fq4ei]

@@xolotlmexihcah4671 New Spain, which was many territories including California to Florida, Cuba, Caribbeans, Phillipines, Central America plus, was administered in Mexico City by Spains viceroy, representative of Spains king. Cortez made it to Vera Cruz in 1519, Spain did not explore California and SW till about 1540, while simultaneously other explorations from Florida to Louisiana, claimed as territories for Spain as part of New Spain. In fact New Mexico Territory predates Mexico as New Mexico got its name approx 1560, over two centuries before Mexico got its name 1821. You can refer to a New Spain map, prior to 1821, there is no Mexico... Tenochtitlan the Aztec capitol, was renamed Mexico City by Spain for the "mexica" Aztec tribes in that vicinity , sometimes referred to as valley of Mexico, home to the mexica, which was rich in gold. Spains tales of rich cities yet to be discovered were prevalent, with tales of a golden city by the De Niza expedition, promoted the extensive Coronado expedition to the far north tierras nuevas and a new "Mexico" for treasures to be found. Had Spain not named the capital Mexico City it would likely still be Tenochtitlan, Montezumas reigning city. So credit goes to Spain for naming the Aztec capitol, "Mexico City" and who knows what todays Mexico would be named if not for Spain. The country or nation of Mexico, 300 years later is a whole different story and different era from Spains era of governing New Spain. During Spains era, the different territories, far and wide, were known as New Spain and ruled by Spains iron clad monarchy. New Mexico, in fact all of New Spain territories had different Indian tribes, different cultures , different ethnicities, different politics, different geographies and different histories. Same language--Spanish. Same religion--Catholic. Except for the thousands of unconquered Indians. New Mexico was a province of the young Mexico after independence for 25 years, not by default, but by Mexicos claim. In fact, New Mexico which included Arizona, Texas and California did not fight for independence from Spain, or were part of Hidalgos or Guerillas politics or rebellions against Spain. And in Mexicos attempt to independence, its first Constitution 1814, Apatzingan these far north provinces were not listed as Mexico, they did not support independence. In fact, there were northern NM folks in the 1800s who actually lived under three flags. Born under Spains flag as subjects if Spain, lived under the Mexican flag as Mexican citizens ( including Anglo settlers), died under the USA flag as American citizens.

[@erickabrady4780]

I still use those words that I learned from my grandparents Urbano and Rosa Carrillo

[@Evyeve6582]

My Grandmother Chavez- Espinosa from Pueblo Colorado and Chama, Tierra Armarilla New Mexico. She was very happy and proud she could speak two languages. ❤

[@spiderpickle3255]

I feel like part of the reason this Español is disappearing has something to do with the stories both our parents told us when growing up. They both said that their teachers would physically punish them if they were caught speaking Spanish at all and told to only speak english. This would have been in the 50's in both Del Norte and Monte Vista. I grew up being taught that english was the only lawfully recognized language in the US and it wasn't until I was in middle school that I learned the US doesn't have an official language. I wish I had been taught this but I only know a handful of words and a couple simple phrases 😔

[@elbarrigueta]

You can learn Spanish on KZbin or another social network. The Anglo-Saxon world has always been supremacist, intolerant, exclusive, racist and xenophobic. You just have to see the native Americans who walk through on the streets of cities in the United States and compare them with the streets of Spanish-American countries like (Guatemala, México, El Salvador, Perú, Colombia, etc., etc.,). Un saludo desde España.

[@spiderpickle3255]

@@elbarrigueta Yes, I know what you are saying. I just have to look at the history of my own blood in New Mexico and Colorado. I need tribal blood quantum be recognized as a member of an Indian nation.

[@scintillam_dei]

English is objectively the stupidest (most inconsistent) language of all. It's also far less romantic than Spanish. See my videos proving Spaniash superiority over the English in many ways except that they eventually had greater technology due to their horizons expanded by the Spanish they followed.

[@Olsjaz]

@@elbarrigueta you’re so right.

[@frankiesalazar3515]

Lovely viejitos ❤️

[@newvibes789]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aidenew3741]

I am from Chihuahua Mexico, and we speak that dialect quite abit up there still ❤❤

[@thrustinjustin5115]

I read the headline and thought GOOD!

[@zeldazoom4415]

Thank You for this piece! My grandfather was raised in Maxwell NM and moved to Pueblo. Home sick and missing the old days in Southern CO. They spoke Spanish and I tried to learn in school, but it is not the same. Where can I learn to speak Spanish like my grandparents.

[@deecee9479]

It sounds to me like Spanglish. As a native English speaker working really hard to learn Spanish, I appreciate the words that are similar to English. It’s like a cheat word for me 😅. In any event, I am always saddened to learn of any dialects fading away. It is wonderful that some of the younger generation is working to keep it alive. What a great story! ❤️👍🏼

[@axobros7950]

🫶♥️ So glad you did this piece! Sad to hear it is disappearing. I wish we had a teacher in Wyoming.

[@felipemontoya2558]

You know what's sadder? That the reporter who's doing the documentary admits at the end he doesn't even speak it, in spite of the fact her grandma is the only in her family who still speaks it. That's the sad part, it'll fade quicker than 50 years for sure. Not even the local are speaking it anymore. Such a shame!

[@user-ei8go8og5g]

It’s so sad:/ I speak and understand Spanish but exactly like this video says, it’s not even Spanish from my own culture, it’s words from Mexico or Spain that I learned in school or through other people. All my great grandparents who spoke this specific dialect fluently are gone and I only have two grandparents who speak it but who’ve lost a lot of their Spanish even though it was their first language due to being punished for speaking Spanish in school

[@antoniogutierrezjr7471]

What bout trying to learn. The native language ? I speak flunet Spanish but feal bad I don’t know the native language why focus on the colonizers language ??

[@felipemontoya2558]

@@antoniogutierrezjr7471 the Pueblo language is spoken by a fewer portion of the population. It will not have effect on the economy, so people is not incentivized to speak it. Same in my country Colombia there are at least 1,000 native languages but the majority of them are just spoken by few hundreds. Is a lost battle unfortunately. At least Spanish is Lingua Franca in The Americas.

[@RasTalarian]

I have ran into these populations in New Mexico and it is fascinating to run into the dialect. I remember in Ojo Caliente I went into a diner and had the whole place open up in the rare form. It was awesome, those people are very proud of their SPANIARD mix of Spanish. It is like an old school Castilian lol. People are very verbal, it was like a walking ethnography.

[@psalm91.777]

Thank you

[@hiphipjorge5755]

As someone who has been to Spain many times, and natively speaks Spanish (from El Salvador), this Spanish is no more similar to Castilian Spanish than any other dialect is. In fact, the ones that bear most resemblance to any Castilian dialect outside of Spain are in the Caribbean, Chile, and Equatorial Guinea (in Africa).

[@kvetchnik]

lmao this spanish is almost indistinguishable from northern mexican spanish tf u on

[@RasTalarian]

a lot @@kvetchnik

[@RasTalarian]

don't forget Argentina but they may be just be influenced by German lmfao@@hiphipjorge5755

[@nicolebrown6616]

Mi gente!

[@LewisC-iu3hh]

Why do you have an Anglo surname?

[@nicolebrown6616]

@@LewisC-iu3hh Marriage.

[@hereweare9173]

Que viven nuestra gente ❤!

[@retirementbootcampoff-grid237]

I love the music sung in their Spanish and played by self-taught viejitos. It warms my heart.

[@elcidsolorzano]

El Castellano will never die! Viva la Hispanidad!!!

[@simonsuarez5314]

Viva!

[@scintillam_dei]

All languages will die when the new earth comes. DEVS VVLT

[@trashcantacos]

​@@scintillam_dei fuck no

[@guille224]

VIVA!!!

[@manuelsanchezdeinigo3959]

¡Qué Viva!

[@daisybailey28]

Alot of words I heard are words we use in the east coast as a spanglish speaker. Pastel, lonche, troka. I'm curious to learning more about this dialect and these people. Very fascinating.

[@thekingofmoney2000]

Pastel is not Spanglish, it’s the correct way to say “cake” in Mexican Spanish. “Queque” is what a lot of Spanglish speakers call cake, which derives from the English word “cake”.

[@Dwayne707countryliving]

My grandparents lived in new Mexico and Colorado. I wish they were around to ask about the Spanish they spoke. My grandparents had a accent. Are there and CDs to learn would love to

[@_DB.COOPER]

Spanish is different all over the world. This is nothing unusual.

[@haroldmanuelito6935]

Ever heard how we say words like "soy" 😭

[@_DB.COOPER]

@@haroldmanuelito6935 Yo soy or Yo, Soy Boy! ?

[@haroldmanuelito6935]

@@_DB.COOPER yo seigo* is how we say it here

[@_DB.COOPER]

@@haroldmanuelito6935 interesting.

[@albertocisneros79]

Good video, I have great elders that's original from Colorado, they are Spanish speaking Mestizos....

[@franktrujillo3376]

He was slick with it

[@jalynsantistevan2204]

My grandparents still speak it today I adore it so much.🥹

[@danzbutrfly]

Ay que nice esta este video a mi me gusto very much.

[@matiasromero328]

I grew up in a tiny farming community named Embúdo in north-central New Mexico. I learned =to speak Spanish at the same time I learned to speak English. My parents made sure my sister and I knew both languages fluently so we could converse with our elderly grandparents, great-tíos & tías as they spoke very little, to no English. I can still speak, read and write fluently in Spanish. Northeño Spanish truly is a dialect of it's own. Example --> "¿que vas hacer este weekend?". It's a beautiful dialect.

[@jorgecervantes3725]

That’s Spanglish my friend. For someone that properly speaks the Spanish language, speaking in that form is embarrassing.

[@mrs.force-kihn118]

Yeah I’m like totally confused as to what every in the comments is talking about. I’m like waiting to hear what this language/dialect sounds like. It’s dying out! We have to save it!… okay? There’s nothing to save ! It’s just people who didn’t learn Spanish all the way that feel inadequate they need some corny “idioma”. Don’t make it your personality jeez you sound like you got hired as the diversity character in a movie as a Latina and you gotta say chica or hermana when you talk to your friend

[@danieldelrancho5749]

This type of Spanish will never die in the SouthWest

[@LOVE-JC777]

I know some of the words I grew up with friends who migrated to colorado every summer and work the fields. From Tx

[@Kon20]

Where can I find that book?

[@elwerouno1]

Nice 💪🇲🇽🇺🇸

[@michaelcharlesthearchangel]

In Idaho too

[@matthewpadilla1985]

When I hear this type of Spanglish/Spanish I know I’m home. Las Vegas, New Mexico! My great grandmother used to talk like this and my grandmother still does.

[@bebaramz9914]

Wgat a beautiful town ❤

[@maryannlopez3409]

Exactly the way my family from northern new mexico speak.

[@EllatheDancersLife]

I'm a local Coloradian, who also has Mexican ancestors. 🇲🇽 I used to beggg my mom to teach me Spanish. However, once my grandmother (mi abuela🩷) crossed the boarders and permanently moved to the U.S. she insisted that her children become Americanized and only spoke english to them. 😤🇺🇲🫡 Even though my grandmother knew both English and Spanish. My mother could never keep up but was only able to pick up here and there.. Growing up in CO the school districts decided to take out foreign language in elementary schools. I was SO disappointed as a kid 😢 When I later ran into my elementary Spanish teacher, La Señora Reyes, she ended up telling me she remembered how passionate I was to learning Spanish. 💗 Ive recently decided to brush up on my Spanish and have noticed the hidden gems of Spanish around CO. After watching this clip I feel more encouraged to keep practicing Spanish. Especially, here in CO. 💛🤍💙♥️

[@elsomnoliento]

Same thing is happening to the Spanish dialect of the Philippines. Only a very few aging native speakers are still alive. Although a lot of younger people are learning Spanish nowadays, it is not the Spanish that our grandparents and great-grand parents spoke.

[@covidisascam4556]

I'm Mexican and they have the same accent as my grandparents. I consider these folks Mexican because we are united by tradition.

[@DrBeauHightower]

14th generation New Mexican here

[@ismaela50]

How is your last name is Hightower

[@thekingofmoney2000]

@@ismaela50 many Hispanics New Mexicanas mixed with Anglos. It’s common here in Texas too among Hispanics. I know many Tejanos with Anglo last names. I’m an 8 generation Tejano and I have several Anglos in my family tree.

[@ismaela50]

@@thekingofmoney2000 than hes an anglo with hispanic ancestors

[@genxx2724]

@@ismaela50 Gimme a break. You know people intermarry.

[@LewisC-iu3hh]

You have an Anglo last name! You can’t be there for that long! The Anglos have been there only since the 1840s!

[@srodevodka]

Honestly guys, you should save your Spanish inheritance. This dignifies your unique culture.

[@marcoa.2912]

"Lonche" and "Queque" are popular words in Peru too

[@The1ByTheSea]

Queque in Costa Rica for cake ,Queique and Jejen( gnats ) in El Salvador ,Pastel :Pie For example you go to any McDonalds in Latin America and apple pie would be Pastel de Manzana .

[@eternalluv5272]

@ 6:26 ...💯💝... Touchin' Tie 💖

[@Almighty_GOD]

@3:21 truly truly resonates with me 😆

[@lolo2140]

Say hi to my man! Jojola! -Yoyola!- Looking forward to see him again.

[@guillermorivas7819]

Northern Mexican Spanish from Mexican states like Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua et al. tend to use the Spanglish words mentioned in this video.

[@ArmandoLuis1318]

Interesting

[@robertomartinez9834]

I am dominican and I understood everything, in the DR we call jején to other insects, too bad that many americans don't know that Spanish has been spoken in some american states before they became part of the USA, Spanish is not an inmigrant's language in the USA

[@ANDATV1]

The little they have said in Spanish is perfectly understandable for any Spanish speaker. I don't understand why it is frequently said that the Spanish of one area or another is not understood, when it is basically the same and only a few words change that are quickly understood by the context of the sentence. I have never had problems understanding a Spanish speaker from anywhere.

[@tenuck67]

Jeremy's grandmother speaks with a mexican accent, and her spanish is very understandable. I'm Mexican and fully bilingual, and the grandmother spanish isn't much different than the grandmothers spanish here in California. So their spanish isn't archaic nor is it different, it only incorporates a lot of spanglish. But the new generation can diffinitely learn spanish in school, but they don't want to.

[@imawizardneversayeight7340]

Se parece a un familiar mío una barbaridad

[@mariamoreno6342]

Orgullosa de sentir hablar en español a esas venerables personas. Orgullosa de saber que antes de que se oyera una sola palabra en inglés en esas tierras ya se hablaba español.

[@manuelsanchezdeinigo3959]

¡Qué Viva Gran Hispañidad! ¡Saludos de Nueva México La Villa Alburquerque ciudad del duque! ¡Qué Viva! ⚔️🇪🇸🇺🇸🇲🇽⚔️

[@MannyGonzalezReyna]

Mexican from Arizona, I think their language is like here LADINO, its an ancient Spanish that the conquistadores brought and froze in the farms and agricultural communities.

[@danieldelrancho5749]

My Viejitos 🇺🇸 🇲🇽

[@playero1555]

Lonche, jejen, troca y queque son palabras que sigo usando aquí en Matamoros Tamaulipas

[@Solidous281r6]

I want to pass this to my children so much

[@alfredosanchez6596]

My dad's side is from New Mexico and we are part of the Atrisco land grant heritage . Viva Nuevo Mexico

[@Solidous281r6]

My mother was from pecos, and my dad from pina blanca

[@paulvarado]

Questa Represent!

[@tinaviera2488]

My family from Old Town in Albuquerque...this dialect only understood by oldsters. Gone and replaced.

[@Rivan98]

Soy paraguayo, nunca estuve en mexico pero por obvias razones sé como suena y al descubrí que existe un dialecto en español llamado neomexicano o new mexican spanish quise saber como suena y la verdad para mi la diferencia con el español de mexico es casi imperceptible, puede que solo sea porque algunas palabras me parecen mal pronunciadas.

[@xolotlmexihcah4671]

El acento regional mexicano chihuahuense es el más similar (por no decir idéntico) al de Nuevo México y Colorado. Y no es de sorprender, comparten frontera y tradiciones desde hace milenios. En la región siempre hubo un intercambio de influencias, y la era contemporánea no es la excepción, pues se refleja en su dialecto regional.

[@shiroumxm2052]

Soy Mexicano y tienes razón, esto no es Español antiguo sino spanglish

[@jorgecervantes3725]

Así es, culturalmente y lenguisticamente son casi idénticos a los mexicanos, nadamas que está gente cree que son españoles recién bajados del al pinta jaja, pero cómo puedes ver, hablan, se ven y comen como los mexicanos de norte.

[@e.anthonysolano9683]

My grandparents rised me I’m so glad I know the language Mis raises Viva la raza Viva chicanoismo