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- A recent U.S. Census Bureau survey estimated that New Mexico has the highest percentage – 28.26 percent – of residents who speak Spanish nationwide. Texas ranked second with 27.63 percent and California third with 25.69 percent.
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Apr 9, 2023 · In places like Albuquerque, New Mexico’s largest city, the dialect is being eclipsed by the Spanish of a new wave of migrants, particularly from the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico.
May 22, 2023 · New Mexican Spanish is a unique dialect, a mixture of centuries-old Spanish with Indigenous words that evolved through historical isolation. Traditional prayers are the dialect’s best chance of survival, as younger generations switch to English and to contemporary Spanish forms from Latin America.
Apr 14, 2023 · In Questa, NM, the distinctive dialect of northern New Mexico can still be heard, but less frequently. For more than 400 years, the mountains of northern New Mexico have cradled a dialect of Spanish that exists nowhere else on earth. Now, the sound of the language is fading from the towns where it once flourished.
Apr 10, 2023 · Called “New Mexican Spanish,” this dialect has been passed down from generation to generation. Families of descendants of 16th- and 17th-century Spanish settlers living in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado preserved the language.
Aug 13, 2021 · SANTA FE — New Mexico has retained its title as the nation’s most heavily Hispanic state, with 47.7 percent of respondents to the 2020 census identifying ancestry linked to Latin America and...
Apr 1, 2022 · Spanish, as it is traditionally spoken in New Mexico and southern Colorado, is a uniquely evolved variety of the language brought to the area in the 1500s by settlers from colonial Mexico.
An estimated 28.3 percent spoke Spanish, 5.2 percent spoke other languages (which likely includes American Indian languages), 1.3 percent spoke Indo-European languages and 0.7 percent spoke Asian or Pacific Island languages.
