Will someone define the word "Spanglish"?

Question

I keep seeing "Spanglish" but don't know what it means. What is this term and why is it used?

Answer 1

Here's an example. "I said that I wasn't going porgue I don't feel good. Entiende?"

or vise versa

"Yo no voy because no me siento bien. You know what I mean"?

Answer 2

This is sad but true:
Spanglish, a portmanteau of the words Spanish and English, is a name used to refer to a range of language-contact phenomena, primarily in the speech of the Hispanic population of the United States, which is exposed to both Spanish and English. These phenomena are a product of close border contacts or large bilingual communities, such as along the United States-Mexico border and throughout Southern California, northern New Mexico, Texas, Florida (especially Miami), Puerto Rico, and in New York City. It is also quite common in Panama, where the 96-year (1903-1999) U.S. control of the Panama Canal has influenced many aspects of society (especially among the former residents of the Panama Canal Zone, commonly referred to as "Zonians"). A "Spanglish" also arose in the speech of Gibraltar, known as Llanito. Spanglish is sometimes known by a regional name; for example, within Texas it may be called "Tex-Mex" (as distinct from the regional cuisine by the same name).

The term Spanglish was reportedly coined by Puerto Rican linguist Salvador Tió in the late 1940's. Tió also coined the term inglañol, a converse phenomenon in which English is affected by Spanish; the latter term did not become as popular as the former.

Spanish is the most beautiful language on the world but Spanish speakers destroy it like it is a fun thing but it is ignorance.

Answer 3

spanglish = when people mix the words of the spanish language and english in a sentence or word. For example "troqua" It means "truck", but the actual spanish word for truck is "camioneta". Or like "prestame tu pick-up vamos al new apartment." You are just mixing up the 2 languages by using the first word that comes into mind (whatever language it may be)

Answer 4

It's a blending of the English and Spanish languages in bilingual areas. English already incorporates terms from other languages English speakers encounter. In areas like where I live about half the people have Spanish as their first language and they speak a mixture of broken English and Spanish. If they don't take over and force Spanish on us, our language will incorporate more Spanish words and phrases and be truely Spanglish.

Answer 5

Spanglish, a portmanteau of the words Spanish and English, is a name used to refer to a range of language-contact phenomena, primarily in the speech of the Hispanic population of the United States, which is exposed to both Spanish and English.

Answer 6

Spanglish, a portmanteau of the words Spanish and English, is a name used to refer to a range of language-contact phenomena, primarily in the speech of the Hispanic population of the USA, which is exposed to both Spanish and English. These phenomena are a product of close border contacts or large bilingual communities, such as along the United States–Mexico border, in Florida, especially Miami, and in New York City.
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanglish

I use at home with my mother sometimes to practice my spanish. It was also a movie starring Adam Sandler.

Answer 7

Because when mexicans first snuck over here some of their parents actually thought it would be a good Idea to make their kids speak english so the kids learned some words in english and some in spanish. Which if you ever took a basic spanish course there are alot of words that are the same in engish and spanish. So now if the kids speaking spanish but cant express theirself in spanish because they really dont know the they will use an english word and then go back to the broken spanish.

Answer 8

English and Spanish

Answer 9

It describes a language that is spoken that involves both English and Spanish.Like some would say ,"I'm going to the tienda".Tienda means store.Lemme know if I can be more helpful.

Answer 10

it's a slang term for people who speak a form of english and spanish, but they don't speak either well enough to just use the one language, so they have combined them into a form of speech all it's own