A Dictionary Of New Mexico And Southern Colorado Spanish by Cobos, Ruben - 1983

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1983. 189 Pages. The lexical items contained in this work come from towns and villages of the upper Rio Grande in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. A dialect of Spanish has been spoken uninterruptedly since the end of the 17th century in New Mexico, and since the middle of the nineteenth century in southern Colorado. The author was in direct contact with the Spanish spoken in these areas since 1933 coming from Mexico into New Mexico. It was as a student at Menaul, a Presbyterian school for Spanish-American boys in Albuquerque that he first became acquainted with New Mexico Spanish as spoken by his classmates. Those young men came to Menaul from homes in Santa Fe, Chimay6, Espanola, El Rito, Penasco, Taos, Mora, Chama, and other towns in New Mexico, and from Antonito, Conejos, La Jara, Alamosa, Fort Garland, San Luis, Walsenburg, Trinidad, La Junta, and other towns in Colorado. Excluded are common household words as agua, water; burro, donkey; caballo, horse which are readily recognized as standard Spanish. Included are words which have local acceptations superimposed on their original meanings, a shift of accent, or definite semantic variations not present in their standard Spanish counterparts. The spelling of entries in this work is based on the rules of Spanish orthography and accentuation. Alphabetization, likewise, follows standard Spanish practices. The letters ch, II and ii occur after c, I and n respectively, and have separate, individual sections in the dictionary. Pronunciation of local Spanish is akin to that of northern Mexico, and both differ from Castilian Spanish pronunciation with respect to c, z, II, and y. c, z: c before e and i, and z in a final position or before a, o, and u. Contents: Preface, Introduction, Use of the Dictionary, and Bibliography. . Fourth Printing. Trade Paperback. As New. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4".