Meaning of spanglish (what is it, concept and definition)

What is Espanglish:

Espanglish is a fusion between the Spanish language and the English language. It is used mostly by those Hispanic immigrants in the United States.

Spanglish has a hybrid character between Spanish and English due to the large number of Spanish speakers in the United States. This way of expressing itself also denotes a strong influence of the English language on the popular culture of Spanish-speaking countries.

Spanglish mixes both lexicons and grammatical forms and phonological borrowings between both languages. Some examples of words in Spanish or Spanglish are:

• Mop: use the mop to clean something, Vacuminate: use the vacuum cleaner which in English is called vacuum, Park: park using the English word parking, Rufo: roof derives from the English roof, etc.

It is estimated that there are close to 40 million Spanish-speaking people who reside in the United States and use Spanglish daily. It is especially associated with the way Chicanos speak.

This type of language has been widely criticized in the most cultured and orthodox linguistic and literary media but it has been confirmed that there is a lexical and grammatical evolution in Spanglish which is studied by several linguists today.

Spanglish has adapted several names such as ingañol, inglespañol, espanglés, espanglis among others, being the most widely used the espanglish accepted by the Royal Spanish Academy and spanglish.

Another example of language mergers is Portuñol or Portunhol, which mixes Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, denoting a cultural exchange between the two.