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>words drawn from English and languages indigenous to North America. >thought to be Tlaxcalan Indians, who spoke Náhuatl, the lingua franca of the Aztec Empire
by dghughes 4y ago
>words drawn from English and languages indigenous to North America.
>thought to be Tlaxcalan Indians, who spoke Náhuatl, the lingua franca of the Aztec Empire.
Why would a dialect of Spanish in southern Spain have indigenous native American words?
- anthk 4y agoBecause "imports" of foreign goods. All of them, from the Pyrenees to Patagonia. From chocolate to cacahuete to who knows how many more kinds of food.
- el-salvador 4y agoIt is the exception, rather than the rule, but there are two Nahuatl words that have been borrowed widely to other languages. They can be found in a recognizable form even as far away as Finnish, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese and Emoji. Chocolate from Xocolatl Tomato from Tomatl
- dghughes 4y agoAh yes I can see that it makes sense. But I guess I was under the impression what was meant was a small area of southern Spain and its language was more heavily affected that loanwords. Perhaps structure too not just using words for items that didn't exist in the Old World.
- anthk 4y agoYes, they has been affected. It has more Arabic loanwords (in use) than the rest of Spain. Such as "babuchas" for sneakers/slippers instead of zapatillas. But of course lots of words from the New World's Native Trives arrived to Spain: poncho, chocolate, coyote, cacahuete...