{"id":140,"date":"2009-02-20T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=140"},"modified":"2009-02-20T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T20:14:08","slug":"lexical-influences-in-spanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/lexical-influences-in-spanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexical influences in Spanish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that story that John loved Mary, who loved Charles, who loved&#8230;? Well, learning languages is not different, because each language ends up influencing others. You must know already that you can express things differently in Spanish depending on which country you are in, right? Let\u2019s take for example the word \u201cbus\u201d: if you\u2019re in Spain, you say <em>autob\u00fas<\/em>, in Cuba <em>guagua <\/em>(which in Chile means baby), in Chile <em>micro <\/em>and in Argentina, <em>colectivo<\/em>. This amazing vocabulary diversity goes over not only borders but also centuries of history, because Spanish comes from Latin, which branched out into many dialectal varieties that turned into the Romance languages. Check out some interesting lexical borrowings in Spanish and where they came from.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; From Arabic: foods like <em>acelga <\/em>(chard), <em>alubia <\/em>(bean), <em>zanahoria <\/em>(carrot), <em>aceite <\/em>(oil), <em>arroz <\/em>(rice), <em>naranja <\/em>(orange), <em>caf\u00e9 <\/em>(coffee). Also words like <em>barrio <\/em>(neighborhood), <em>alfombra <\/em>(rug\/carpet), <em>asesino<\/em> (assassin), <em>guitarra <\/em>(guitar), <em>alcohol <\/em>(alcohol), or <em>cero <\/em>(zero).<br \/>\n&#8211; From French: we have <em>hostal <\/em>(motel, guesthouse), <em>mensaje <\/em>(message), <em>fais\u00e1n <\/em>(pheasant), <em>batalla <\/em>(battle), <em>monje <\/em>(monk), <em>moda <\/em>(fashion), <em>parque <\/em>(park), <em>fresa <\/em>(strawberry), <em>crema <\/em>(cream), <em>cami\u00f3n <\/em>(truck), <em>marr\u00f3n <\/em>(brown), <em>chaqueta <\/em>(jacket), or <em>rifle <\/em>(rifle).<br \/>\n&#8211; When it comes to art, Italian plays a major role, with words like <em>novela <\/em>(novel), <em>partitura <\/em>(music score), <em>dise\u00f1o <\/em>(design), <em>\u00f3pera <\/em>(opera), <em>serenata <\/em>(serenade), <em>c\u00fapula <\/em>(dome), <em>piano <\/em>(piano)<em>, <\/em>etc.<br \/>\n&#8211; From the time when Spaniards were settling in America we have indigenous words such as: <em>cacao <\/em>(cocoa), <em>chocolate<\/em>, <em>cacahuete <\/em>(peanuts), <em>tomate <\/em>(tomato), <em>patata <\/em>(potato), <em>batata <\/em>(sweet potato, yam), <em>barbacoa <\/em>(barbeque), <em>caucho <\/em>(rubber), <em>chicle <\/em>(chewing gum), <em>tabaco <\/em>(tobacco), and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Nos vemos prontito.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that story that John loved Mary, who loved Charles, who loved&#8230;? Well, learning languages is not different, because each language ends up influencing others. You must know already that you can express things differently in Spanish depending on which country you are in, right? Let\u2019s take for example the word \u201cbus\u201d: if you\u2019re in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/lexical-influences-in-spanish\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[358369],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}