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Book: The Five-Minute Linguist

Chapter: What’s the future of Spanish in the United States?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.20798

Blurb:

The future of U.S. Spanish doesn’t depend just on external factors like social pressures, economic incentives, and demographics; it may also be affected by linguistic developments. Spanish is being reinvented day by day, and Spanglish is only one sign that Spanish in the U.S. is adapting to its linguistic environment, and becoming more likely to thrive, functioning as a U.S. language second only to English.

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