| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0890131422 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780890131411 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
467 Cob |
| Item number |
43 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
467 Cob |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Cobos, Ruben |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Dictionary of New Mexico and southern Colorado Spanish |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Cobos, Ruben |
| 246 ## - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
A dictionary of New Mexico and southern Colorado Spanish |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Museum of NM Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1982 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Santa Fe, NM |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xviii, 189 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
The Spanish spoken in rural areas of New Mexico and southern Colorado can be described as a regional type of language made up of archaic sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish; Mexican Indian words, mostly from the Nahuatl; a few indigenous Rio Grande Indian words; words and idiomatic expressions peculiar to the Spanish of Mexico (the so-called mexicanismos); local New Mexico and southern Colorado vocabulary; and countless language items from English which the Spanish-speaking segment of the population has borrowed and adapted for everyday use. Dr. Ruben Cobos began informally collecting examples of this unique dialect while a high school student in Albuquerque in the late 1920s, curious about differences he noted in New Mexico speech when compared with that he brought from Mexico and Texas. In the 1940s he undertook serious study of the language, and in 1983 produced the seminal work A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish. Over the past two decades he has continued his research in |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
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| Local note |
53032 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Southwest |
| General subdivision |
provincialisms |
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Spanish language |
| -- |
Dictionary |
| Geographic subdivision |
New Mexico |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
New Mexico |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
New Mexico |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
sw 400 - 499 |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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