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  1. Isleño Spanish (Spanish: español isleño, French: espagnol islingue) is a dialect of Canarian Spanish spoken by the descendants of Canary Islanders who settled in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States, during the late 18th century.

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      Isleños ( Spanish: [isˈleɲos]) are the descendants of...

  2. Isleño Spanish is a dialect of the Spanish language spoken by the descendants of Canary Islanders who settled in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States, during the late 18th century. It has been greatly influenced by adjacent language communities as well as immigration from peninsular Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries. Moreover, the dialect spoken by the Isleños who settled ...

  3. Oct 5, 2019 · However, only in St. Bernard Parish has a significant measure of the Isleño heritage and cultural legacies been preserved into the twenty-first century. While Isleño Spanish is rapidly vanishing from St. Bernard Parish, still there are those descendants who still speak the language of their ancestors after almost 250 years.

  4. Feb 19, 2024 · An Isleño trapper speaks to his helper on Delacroix Island about the scarcity of muskrats caused by flood and adverse weather conditions. Photo by Marion Post Walcott. L ouisiana’s Isleños descend from Canary Islanders who immigrated to the southeastern part of the state in the late 1700s, when Spain ruled the colony.

  5. Los Islenos History. The St. Bernard Isleños culture is Louisiana's Spanish Treasure! Beginning in the 1300s, kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula (predating the establishment of the Kingdom of Spain) began searching for gold and other mineral wealth to enrich their realms. King Henry of Castille commissioned Jean de Bethancourt to explore and ...

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