Hispanisms in Southwest Indian Languages

The American Southwest Indians' contacts with the Spanish conquistadores are characterized, noting the difference in resistence to Hispanicization by the various tribes & lexical residues in their languages in the form of the adapted & assimilated Hispanisms. An alphabetic list of 224 Spanish words that found their way into the individual Southwest Amerindian languages is compiled. Each entry is accompanied by an English equivalent & Indian Hispanisms documented in available sources, with a specific reference provided for each borrowing. Data sources, classified by language family, are listed separately. The morphological & phonetic aspects of the borrowing process reflected in the Hispanisms, their Spanish vs English provenance, & borrowings that bypassed Spanish (Nahuatl or northwest Mexico Indian languages as sources) are commented on. 92 References. Z. Dubiel