Please stop saying New Mexicans speak an “ancient” form of Spanish.

Kurly Tlapoyawa
5 min readJun 20, 2019

It is often said that the Spanish spoken in Northern New Mexico is actually an “ancient” and “archaic” form of Spanish no longer spoken in Spain. But is this really true?

No.

Of course not.

Don’t be ridiculous.

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Kurly Tlapoyawa

(Chicano/Nawa/Mazewalli) Archaeologist, filmmaker, and founder of the Chimalli institute of Mesoamerican Arts. Professor of C/S at Colegio Chicano del Pueblo.