USA speaks Castilian

United States has become a laboratory for the language of Cervantes . Powered by Hispanic immigration , the Spanish live an unprecedented expansion . This growth , as tabled in the Spanish Language Congress of Panama held two weeks ago, involves challenges and some other danger.

With nearly 50 million , is the first Spanish -speaking country most populous Spanish-speaking . The advance is such that it seems that in 2050 Mexico surpassed and will have the absolute record of Castilian speakers .

With 900,000 students , is the most studied foreign language in universities. And there are some that offer courses and language studies only .

"It is our wet tongue entering the United States hidden in cargo vans , crammed onto the roofs of the carriages of the train of death in Chiapas trip to Sonora , which transfers the smart wall , which mocks infrared detectors ".

With its literary description of the way and the conditions under which language comes Juan Rulfo , Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez was the first to talk in Congress of a reality which employs linguists and sociologists.

Behind him were others in the Convention Center Atlapa approached a phenomenon that is a direct response to the recent opening of a branch of the Instituto Cervantes in Harvard University .

" Throughout the Spanish history there have always been areas where there have been mixed , but with a large geographical spread not, and communication with a capacity as large as the U.S. ", said the director of the center Cervantes , Francisco Moreno Fernández .

Hispanics are consolidated as the largest minority in the land of John Steinbeck and Spanish stands in the language of a speech community stable. So far , however , we can not talk of a U.S. Spanish . Each community partners there still remains very high awareness of its origins.

" In Chicago, for example, the Castilian is Mexican , Florida is the Caribbean ', exemplified the director of the Spanish Academy , Jose Manuel Blecua . There is a variety , as there is no single profile of Hispanic , but several.

But there is an ongoing convergence interhispánicos elements that eventually forging a U.S. Spanish sooner or later, says the professor Moreno Fernández , head of the Harvard Observatory Cervantes Spanish language , studying everything that has to do with that expansion in the North American country.

"For example , all speaking call yard and patio . Processes are occurring balancing between Spanish varieties that will end in U.S. Spanish . "

Fear of ' Spanglish '

One aspect that some look with fear is Spanglish , Spanish pollution by giving expressions like English 'll call you back, the literal translation I call you back .

The Peruvian writer and critic Julio Ortega , who has lived for 30 years in the land of Stars and Stripes , sees no problem.

"The Spanish history is made by those processes of mixing and contamination from the Italian Garcilaso 's work until Darius French and Quechua of José María Arguedas ' he said. "Do not be afraid , will cease to exist when no longer observed , as in the imaginary diseases ."

"There are many social, linguistic, political , economic, that will make the Spanish go to one side or another. USA is a laboratory , "said Moreno .