Spanish_language_in_the_United_States

qas: question: How many people speak Spanish as a first or second language in the United States?
answers: text: There are 45 million Hispanophones who speak Spanish as a first or second language in the United States,

question: How many Hispanics speak English too?
answers: text: Roughly half of all American Spanish-speakers also speak English "very well," based on their self-assessment in the U.S. Census.

question: What other language is often spoken in the United states?
answers: text: The Spanish language is the second most spoken language in the United States.

question: What type of language id Spanish?
answers: text: Spanish is the Romance language and the Indo-European language with the largest number of native speakers in the world.

question: How many Spanish speaking students are there in the United States?
answers: text: six million Spanish language students.

question: 45 million people speak Spanish as a first or second language in what country? 

question: What country is the second-largest Hispanophone country in the world? 

question: What type of language is Spanish? 

question: Half of all Spanish speakers also speak what very well?

question: Spanish has the largest number of native speakers in which branch of language?

question: How many Spanish speaking students are there in Spain?

question: What is the first American language?

question: What is the second most spoken language in Columbia?

question: What country has more first language Spanish-speakers than Mexico?

question: How many Hispanophones speak Spanish in Mexico?
context: The Spanish language is the second most spoken language in the United States. There are 45 million Hispanophones who speak Spanish as a first or second language in the United States, as well as six million Spanish language students. Together, this makes the United States of America the second largest Hispanophone country in the world after Mexico, and with the United States having more Spanish-speakers than Colombia and Spain (but fewer first language speakers). Spanish is the Romance language and the Indo-European language with the largest number of native speakers in the world. Roughly half of all American Spanish-speakers also speak English "very well," based on their self-assessment in the U.S. Census.

qas: question: How old is the Spanish language in the United States?
answers: text: The Spanish language has been present in what is now the United States since the 16th and 17th centuries

question: Did the Spanish conquer land in the United States?
answers: text: Spanish colonization in North America that would later become the states of Florida, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and California.

question: Where in the United States did the Spanish explore?
answers: text: The Spanish explorers explored areas of 42 future U.S. states

question: Were there states ruled by the Spanish?
answers: text: western regions of the Louisiana Territory were under Spanish rule between 1763 to 1800,

question: Do the Spanish have a legacy in America from their forefathers?
answers: text: after the French and Indian War, further extending the Spanish influence throughout modern-day United States of America.

question: When did the Spanish language start showing up in America?

question: Florida, Texas, and Colorado were part of which colonization?

question: Besides Florida, Texas, and Colorado, which other states were included in the colonization?

question: How many US states did the Spanish explorers explore?

question: Which years was the Louisiana Territory under Spanish rule?

question: Since when was the Spanish language been present in Mexico?

question: When were eastern regions of the Louisiana Territory under Spanish rule?

question: How many future U.S. states did French explorers explore?

question: What states were colonized by the French?

question: What conflict caused eastern regions of the Louisiana to be under Spanish rule?
context: The Spanish language has been present in what is now the United States since the 16th and 17th centuries, with the arrival of Spanish colonization in North America that would later become the states of Florida, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and California. The Spanish explorers explored areas of 42 future U.S. states leaving behind a varying range of Hispanic legacy in the North American continent. Additionally, western regions of the Louisiana Territory were under Spanish rule between 1763 to 1800, after the French and Indian War, further extending the Spanish influence throughout modern-day United States of America.

qas: question: When did the Spanish arrive to America?
answers: text: Spanish arrived in the territory of the modern United States with Ponce de León in 1513.

question: Did Europeans speak Spanish in America?
answers: text: Spanish was the language spoken by the first permanent European settlers in North America.

question: Where is the oldest settlement in America?
answers: text: St. Augustine, Florida

question: What is the oldest city of the United States territory?
answers: text: The oldest city in all of the U.S. territory, as of 1898, is San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico

question: How was St. Augustine founded?
answers: text: the Spaniards, by way of Juan Ponce de León, founded St. Augustine, Florida

question: What was the first language spoken by the permanent European settlers?

question: Which Spanish settler arrived in the US first?

question: What year did Ponce de Leon settle in the US?

question: Which city did Juan Ponce de Leon found? 

question: What's the capital of Puerto Rico?

question: When did the Spanish arrive to Puerto Rico?

question: Where is the oldest settlement in Puerto Rico?

question: What is the oldest city of Florida?

question: Where was Juan Ponce De Leion the first president?

question: When did the Spaniards found Puerto Rico?
context: Spanish was the language spoken by the first permanent European settlers in North America. Spanish arrived in the territory of the modern United States with Ponce de León in 1513. In 1565, the Spaniards, by way of Juan Ponce de León, founded St. Augustine, Florida, and as of the early 1800s, it became the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States. The oldest city in all of the U.S. territory, as of 1898, is San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, where Juan Ponce De León was its first governor

qas: question: Was Texas a part of Mexico?
answers: text: In 1821, after Mexico's War of Independence from Spain, Texas was part of the United Mexican States as the state of Coahuila y Tejas

question: When did the Americans come to Texas?
answers: text: A large influx of Americans soon followed, originally with the approval of Mexico's president. In 1836

question: Was there a war between the Mexicans and the Texans?
answers: text: Texans, fought a war of independence from the central government of Mexico

question: When did Texas become a state?
answers: text: In 1846, the Republic dissolved when Texas entered the United States of America as a state.

question: Was Texas a primarily a Spanish speaking state?
answers: text: Per the 1850 U.S. census, fewer than 16,000 Texans were of Mexican descent, and nearly all were Spanish-speaking people

question: What was the name for the area Coahuila y Tejas was part of?

question: How many Texans were of Mexican descent in 1850?

question: How many Mexicans in Texas were Spanish speaking?

question: What's the other nationality with a heavy presence in Texas?

question: When did the republic dissolve and Texas entered the US?

question: When did the Americans some to Spain?

question: When did Spain become a state?

question: How many Texans were of English descent?

question: Who did Spain fight to get independence?

question: What census found fewer than 16,000 Texans of English descent?
context: In 1821, after Mexico's War of Independence from Spain, Texas was part of the United Mexican States as the state of Coahuila y Tejas. A large influx of Americans soon followed, originally with the approval of Mexico's president. In 1836, the now largely "American" Texans, fought a war of independence from the central government of Mexico and established the Republic of Texas. In 1846, the Republic dissolved when Texas entered the United States of America as a state. Per the 1850 U.S. census, fewer than 16,000 Texans were of Mexican descent, and nearly all were Spanish-speaking people (both Mexicans and non-Spanish European settlers who include German Texan) who were outnumbered (six-to-one) by English-speaking settlers (both Americans and other immigrant Europeans).[citation needed]

qas: question: When did other states become part of Mexico?
answers: text: After the Mexican War of Independence from Spain

question: What states made up of Alta California
answers: text: California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, western Colorado and southwestern Wyoming became part of the Mexican territory of Alta California

question: What states were part of Santa Fe de Nuevo
answers: text: most of New Mexico, western Texas, southern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and Oklahoma panhandle were part of the territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México

question: Why is  there still Bilingual  spoken in these states?
answers: text: The geographical isolation and unique political history of this territory

question: When did other states become part of Colorado?

question: Why is there still bilingual spoken in Mexico?

question: What did Spanish in Spain differ from?

question: What was North Dakota a part of?

question: What was Nebraska a part of?
context: After the Mexican War of Independence from Spain also, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, western Colorado and southwestern Wyoming became part of the Mexican territory of Alta California and most of New Mexico, western Texas, southern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and Oklahoma panhandle were part of the territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. The geographical isolation and unique political history of this territory led to New Mexican Spanish differing notably from both Spanish spoken in other parts of the United States of America and Spanish spoken in the present-day United Mexican States.

qas: question: Why isn't the southwest Spanish speaking?
answers: text: Through the force of sheer numbers, the English-speaking American settlers entering the Southwest established their language, culture, and law

question: Is Canada bilingual?
answers: text: United States never developed bilingualism as Canada did.

question: Was California a bilingual state?
answers: text: California constitutional convention of 1849 had eight Californio participants; the resulting state constitution was produced in English and Spanish,

question: Why didn't California officially become  bilingual?
answers: text: the convention's English-speaking participants felt that the state's remaining minority of Spanish-speakers should simply learn English

question: Was there a court ruling?
answers: text: the convention ultimately voted 46-39 to revise the earlier clause so that all official proceedings would henceforth be published only in English.

question: Why isn't the southwest English-speaking?

question: Why didn't Caifornia officially become monolingual?

question: What had no English-speaking participants?

question: What had nine California participants?

question: Who developed Monolingualism?
context: Through the force of sheer numbers, the English-speaking American settlers entering the Southwest established their language, culture, and law as dominant, to the extent it fully displaced Spanish in the public sphere; this is why the United States never developed bilingualism as Canada did. For example, the California constitutional convention of 1849 had eight Californio participants; the resulting state constitution was produced in English and Spanish, and it contained a clause requiring all published laws and regulations to be published in both languages. The constitutional convention of 1872 had no Spanish-speaking participants; the convention's English-speaking participants felt that the state's remaining minority of Spanish-speakers should simply learn English; and the convention ultimately voted 46-39 to revise the earlier clause so that all official proceedings would henceforth be published only in English.

qas: question: Did America try to make Puerto Rico an English speaking territory?
answers: text: U.S. federal government strenuously tried to force Puerto Ricans to adopt English

question: How did America try to make Puerto Rico's language English?
answers: text: making them use English as the primary language of instruction in their high schools.

question: Was English in Puerto Rico successful?
answers: text: It was completely unsuccessful,

question: How did Puerto Rico stay a Spanish speaking territory?
answers: text: Puerto Rico was able to maintain its Spanish language, culture, and identity because the relatively small, densely populated island

question: Does Puerto Rico have many English speaking residents?
answers: text: the territory was never hit with a massive influx of millions of English speakers like the vast territory acquired from Mexico 50 years earlier.

question: How did Mexico try to make Puerto Rico's language English?

question: Was French  in Peurto Rico successful?

question: How did Puerto Rico stay an English speaking territory?

question: For how long has the U.S. federal government tried to force Puerto Ricans to adopt Spanish?

question: When did the U.S. government retreat from the policy of making Puerto Ricans use Spanish?
context: For decades, the U.S. federal government strenuously tried to force Puerto Ricans to adopt English, to the extent of making them use English as the primary language of instruction in their high schools. It was completely unsuccessful, and retreated from that policy in 1948. Puerto Rico was able to maintain its Spanish language, culture, and identity because the relatively small, densely populated island was already home to nearly a million people at the time of the U.S. takeover, all of those spoke Spanish, and the territory was never hit with a massive influx of millions of English speakers like the vast territory acquired from Mexico 50 years earlier.

qas: question: How many Puerto Ricans are there?
answers: text: At over 5 million, Puerto Ricans are easily the 2nd largest Hispanic group. Of all major Hispanic groups

question: Do they speak Spanish fluently?
answers: text: Puerto Ricans are the least likely to be proficient in Spanish

question: Where are the biggest population of Puerto Ricans on the mainland?
answers: text: many Puerto Ricans have migrated to New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, and other areas of the Eastern United States

question: Does Florida have a high Hispanic population?
answers: text: increasing the Spanish-speaking populations and in some areas being the majority of the Hispanophone population, especially in Central Florida. In Hawaii

question: Are Hispanics in Hawaii?
answers: text: 7.0 per cent of the islands' people are either Hispanic or Hispanophone or both.

question: What is the second largest hispanic group? 

question: How many Puerto Ricans are there? 

question: Puerto Ricans are citizens of what country?

question: Which region of the United States have many Puerto Ricans migrated to?

question: Where did Puerto Rican farm laborers go in the 19th century?

question: How many U.S. citizens are there?

question: Which group is least likely to be proficient in English?

question: How any of Puerto Rico's people are either English or Hispanophone or both?

question: How many Hawaiians live in the U.S. mainland?

question: Where have farm ranchers and English ranchers settled?
context: At over 5 million, Puerto Ricans are easily the 2nd largest Hispanic group. Of all major Hispanic groups, Puerto Ricans are the least likely to be proficient in Spanish, but millions of Puerto Rican Americans living in the U.S. mainland nonetheless are fluent in Spanish. Puerto Ricans are natural-born U.S. citizens, and many Puerto Ricans have migrated to New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, and other areas of the Eastern United States, increasing the Spanish-speaking populations and in some areas being the majority of the Hispanophone population, especially in Central Florida. In Hawaii, where Puerto Rican farm laborers and Mexican ranchers have settled since the late 19th century, 7.0 per cent of the islands' people are either Hispanic or Hispanophone or both.

qas: question: Why did Cubans come to the United States?
answers: text: Immigration to the United States of Spanish-speaking Cubans began because of Cuba's political instability

question: What year did most Cubans start coming to America?
answers: text: The deposition of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship and the ascension of Fidel Castro's government in 1959 increased Cuban immigration to the United States

question: Where do most Cuban Americans live?
answers: text: , most settled in southern and central Florida, while other Cubans live in the Northeastern United States

question: Do Cubans speak Spanish in America?
answers: text: most are fluent in Spanish

question: Is there a particular place where Cubans live and speak Spanish in the U.S.?
answers: text: In the city of Miami today Spanish is the first language mostly due to Cuban immigration.

question: Cuba's political instability caused what? 

question: What year did Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship end?

question: Who came into power in Cuba in 1959?

question: Most Cubans settled in which southern state?

question: Which city's first language is Spanish due to Cuban immigration?

question: Why did Baptista come to United States?

question: What year did most Spanish start coming to America?

question: Where do most Spanish live?

question: Do Floridians speak Spanish in America?

question: Is there a particular place where Cubans live and speak Spanish in Cuba?
context: Immigration to the United States of Spanish-speaking Cubans began because of Cuba's political instability upon achieving independence. The deposition of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship and the ascension of Fidel Castro's government in 1959 increased Cuban immigration to the United States, hence there are some one million Cubans in the United States, most settled in southern and central Florida, while other Cubans live in the Northeastern United States; most are fluent in Spanish. In the city of Miami today Spanish is the first language mostly due to Cuban immigration.

qas: question: What other Spanish Speaking people come to America?
answers: text: Spanish-speaking Nicaraguans

question: Why did the Nicaraguans come to America?
answers: text: political instability during the end of the 1970s and the 1980s

question: When did the Nicaraguans arrive?
answers: text: Throughout the 1980s with the United States supported Contra War (or Contra-revolutionary war) which continued up until 1988

question: Where did Nicaraguans settle in America?
answers: text: The states of the United States where most Nicaraguans migrated to include Florida, California and Texas.

question: Was there a specific reason many Nicaraguans fled to the U.S.?
answers: text: the economic collapse of the country many more Nicaraguans migrated to the United States amongst other countries.

question: Spanish speaking Nicaraguans also migrated for what reason?

question: What years did Nicaraguans migrate?

question: Which revolution toppled the Somoza dictatorship?

question: What was another term for the Contra War?

question: When did the Contra War end?

question: What other Spanish Speaking people come to Florida?

question: Why did the Nicaraguans come to Florida?

question: When did the Floridians arrive?

question: Was there a specific reason many Floridians fled to the U.S.?

question: When did Florida Support the Contra War?
context: Likewise the migration of Spanish-speaking Nicaraguans also began as a result of political instability during the end of the 1970s and the 1980s. The uprising of the Sandinista revolution which toppled the Somoza dictatorship in 1979 caused many Nicaraguans to migrate particularly from those opposing the Sandinistas. Throughout the 1980s with the United States supported Contra War (or Contra-revolutionary war) which continued up until 1988, and the economic collapse of the country many more Nicaraguans migrated to the United States amongst other countries. The states of the United States where most Nicaraguans migrated to include Florida, California and Texas.

qas: question: Why did Salvadorans come to America?
answers: text: The exodus of Salvadorans was a result of both economic and political problems.

question: When did Salvadorans come to America?
answers: text: The largest immigration wave occurred as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s

question: How many Salvadorans immigrated?
answers: text: 20–30% of El Salvador's population emigrated. About 50%, or up to 500,000 of those who escaped headed to the United States,

question: What is the population of Salvadorans living in America?
answers: text: United States, which was already home to over 10,000 Salvadorans, making Salvadorans Americans the fourth-largest Hispanic and Latino American group

question: Where do Salvadorans fall on the scale for Hispanic living in America?
answers: text: Salvadorans Americans the fourth-largest Hispanic and Latino American group, after the Mexican-American majority, stateside Puerto Ricans, and Cubans.

question: Why did Salvadorans begin an exodus?

question: What caused the largest immigration of Salvadorans?

question: How many Salvadorans came to the US?

question: What year did the Salvadorans come to the US?

question: What's the fourth-largest Hispanic-Latino American group?

question: Why did Slavadorians come to Mexico?

question: When did Salvadorians come to Mexico?

question: What is the population of Salvadorans living in Mexico?

question: Who is the are the fifth-largest Hispanic and Latino American group?

question: How many of El Salvador's population escaped to Mexico?
context: The exodus of Salvadorans was a result of both economic and political problems. The largest immigration wave occurred as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s, in which 20–30% of El Salvador's population emigrated. About 50%, or up to 500,000 of those who escaped headed to the United States, which was already home to over 10,000 Salvadorans, making Salvadorans Americans the fourth-largest Hispanic and Latino American group, after the Mexican-American majority, stateside Puerto Ricans, and Cubans.

qas: question: Why did Central Americans flee to the U.S.?
answers: text: civil wars engulfed several Central American countries in the 1980s

question: When did Salvadorans flee 
answers: text: Salvadorans fled their country and came to the United States. Between 1980 and 1990

question: Are the Salvadorans a large population in the U.S.?
answers: text: the Salvadoran immigrant population in the United States increased nearly fivefold from 94,000 to 465,000.

question: Is the  Salvadoran population still growing?
answers: text: the United States continued to grow in the 1990s and 2000s as a result of family reunification and new arrivals fleeing a series of natural disasters

question: How many  Salvadorans  are in America now?
answers: text: By 2008, there were about 1.1 million Salvadoran immigrants in the United States.

question: Why did Central Americans flee to El Salvador?

question: How many Salvadorans are in Mexico now?

question: What was the population of El Salvador in 1980?

question: What was the population of El Salvador in 1990?

question: What natural disasters hit the United States?
context: As civil wars engulfed several Central American countries in the 1980s, hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans fled their country and came to the United States. Between 1980 and 1990, the Salvadoran immigrant population in the United States increased nearly fivefold from 94,000 to 465,000. The number of Salvadoran immigrants in the United States continued to grow in the 1990s and 2000s as a result of family reunification and new arrivals fleeing a series of natural disasters that hit El Salvador, including earthquakes and hurricanes. By 2008, there were about 1.1 million Salvadoran immigrants in the United States.

qas: question: When did the Venezuelans emigrate to the united states?
answers: text: Until the 20th century, there was no clear record of the number of Venezuelans who emigrated to the United States.

question: Does Venezuela have immigrates from other countries?
answers: text: Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, there were many European immigrants who went to Venezuela

question: Why did Venezuelans come to America?
answers: text: Many Venezuelans settled in the United States with hopes of receiving a better education, only to remain in there following graduation.

question:  Do Venezuelans still come to America for the same reasons as they did before?
answers: text: since the early 1980s, the reasons for Venezuelan emigration have changed to include hopes of earning a higher salary

question: When did the Venezuelans emmigrate to Mexico?

question: Why did Europeans come to America?

question: Since when has European immigration included hopes of a higher salary?

question: How many South Americans emigrated to Mexico from 1910 to 1930?

question: When did Europenan immigrants go to Venezuela and later to Mexico?
context: Until the 20th century, there was no clear record of the number of Venezuelans who emigrated to the United States. Between the 18th and early 19th centuries, there were many European immigrants who went to Venezuela, only to later migrate to the United States along with their children and grandchildren who born and/or grew up in Venezuela speaking Spanish. From 1910 to 1930, it is estimated that over 4,000 South Americans each year emigrated to the United States; however, there are few specific figures indicating these statistics. Many Venezuelans settled in the United States with hopes of receiving a better education, only to remain in there following graduation. They are frequently joined by relatives. However, since the early 1980s, the reasons for Venezuelan emigration have changed to include hopes of earning a higher salary and due to the economic fluctuations in Venezuela which also promoted an important migration of Venezuelan professionals to the US.

qas: question: How did Chavez affect the Venezuelans?
answers: text: In the 2000s, more Venezuelans opposing the economic and political policies of president Hugo Chávez migrated to the United States

question: What areas of America did the Venezuelans settle in?
answers: text: mostly to Florida, but New York City and Houston are other destinations). The largest concentration of Venezuelans in the United States is in South Florida

question: Are there any other areas of America Venezuelans settled in?
answers: text: New York, California, Texas (adding their existing Hispanic populations), New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland.

question: Where are the most populated city's Venezuelan live in?
answers: text: Some of the urban areas with a high Venezuelan community include Miami, New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.

question: What areas of America did the Chavez settle in?

question: Where are the most populated cities Floridians live in?

question: What census recorded Floridian populations?

question: When did Floridians oppose Hugo Chavez?

question: Where is the largest concentration of Floridians?
context: In the 2000s, more Venezuelans opposing the economic and political policies of president Hugo Chávez migrated to the United States (mostly to Florida, but New York City and Houston are other destinations). The largest concentration of Venezuelans in the United States is in South Florida, especially the suburbs of Doral and Weston. Other main states with Venezuelan American populations are, according to the 1990 census, New York, California, Texas (adding their existing Hispanic populations), New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland. Some of the urban areas with a high Venezuelan community include Miami, New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.

qas: question: What language is spoken in the U.S.A?
answers: text: English is the dominant language of business, education, government, religion, media, culture, civil society, and the public sphere.

question: Is there such a thing as bilingual state?
answers: text: Some states, such as New Mexico, provide bilingual legislated notices and official documents

question: Do American Hispanics speak English in the home?
answers: text: there was a trend that most Americans and American residents who are of Hispanic descent speak only English in the home.

question: Is there an official language of the United States?
answers: text: United States has no de jure official language, English is the dominant language

question: What language is spoken in Mexico?

question: What is the official language of the United States?

question: By when did most Americans and American residents who are of Hispanic descent speak only Spanish in the home?

question: Who uses Spanish as their internal working languages?

question: What is a state that provides monolingual legislated notices?
context: Although the United States has no de jure official language, English is the dominant language of business, education, government, religion, media, culture, civil society, and the public sphere. Virtually all state and federal government agencies and large corporations use English as their internal working language, especially at the management level. Some states, such as New Mexico, provide bilingual legislated notices and official documents, in Spanish and English, and other commonly used languages. By 2015, there was a trend that most Americans and American residents who are of Hispanic descent speak only English in the home.

qas: question: Has some states like Arizona embraced their Mexican history?
answers: text: The state (like its southwestern neighbors) has had close linguistic and cultural ties with Mexico

question: What is the states history?
answers: text: The state outside the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 was part of the New Mexico Territory until 1863, when the western half was made into the Arizona Territory.

question: Has New Mexico had a majority of Spanish speaking natives.
answers: text: The area of the former Gadsden Purchase contained a majority of Spanish-speakers until the 1940s

question: Are Arizona and New Mexico residents speaking Spanish or English?
answers: text: the continuous arrival of Mexican settlers increases the number of Spanish-speakers.

question: Who does the state have territory ties with?

question: What was part of Mexico territory until 1863?

question: What area has a the same ratio or anglophones?

question: What was the eastern half of the New Mexico Territory made into?
context: The state (like its southwestern neighbors) has had close linguistic and cultural ties with Mexico. The state outside the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 was part of the New Mexico Territory until 1863, when the western half was made into the Arizona Territory. The area of the former Gadsden Purchase contained a majority of Spanish-speakers until the 1940s, although the Tucson area had a higher ratio of anglophones (including Mexican Americans who were fluent in English); the continuous arrival of Mexican settlers increases the number of Spanish-speakers.

qas: question: Does New Mexico have an official language?
answers: text: the state has no official language.

question: What language is New Mexico's language written in?
answers: text: New Mexico's laws are promulgated bilingually in Spanish and English.

question: How long has New Mexico been speaking Spanish?
answers: text: Spanish has been spoken in the New Mexico-Colorado border and the contemporary U.S.–Mexico border since the 16th century

question: Is New Mexico known for the Spanish language?
answers: text: New Mexico is commonly thought to have Spanish as an official language alongside English because of its wide usage and legal promotion of Spanish in the state

question: Does Colorado have an official language?

question: What language is Colorado's laws written in?

question: For how long has Spanish been spoken in Spain?

question: What is government business often conducted in in Spain?

question: What is the Colorado government's paper working laguage?
context: New Mexico is commonly thought to have Spanish as an official language alongside English because of its wide usage and legal promotion of Spanish in the state; however, the state has no official language. New Mexico's laws are promulgated bilingually in Spanish and English. Although English is the state government's paper working language, government business is often conducted in Spanish, particularly at the local level. Spanish has been spoken in the New Mexico-Colorado border and the contemporary U.S.–Mexico border since the 16th century.[citation needed]

qas: question: Why is New Mexico always an after thought in American -Spanish speaking society?
answers: text: Because of its relative isolation from other Spanish-speaking areas over most of its 400-year existence

question: Is New Mexico's language different than from other Spanish dialect 
answers: text: , New Mexico Spanish, and in particular the Spanish of northern New Mexico and Colorado has retained many elements of 16th- and 17th-century Spanish

question: How does New Mexico's Spanish dialect differ?
answers: text: has developed its own vocabulary. In addition, it contains many words from Nahuatl, the language spoken by the ancient Aztecs of Mexico.

question: Does New Mexico's language also include other dialect?
answers: text: New Mexican Spanish also contains loan words from the Pueblo languages of the upper Rio Grande Valley, Mexican-Spanish words (mexicanismos)

question: Does New Mexico also use language from the  American language when spoken in Spanish?
answers: text: borrowings from English. Grammatical changes include the loss of the second person verb form, changes in verb endings

question: Why is Colorado always an after thought in American-Spanish speaking society?

question: How does Coloradp's Spanish dialect differ?

question: Does Colorado also use language from the American language when spoken in Spanish?

question: What has been relatively isolated from other English-speaking areas over most of its 400-year existence?

question: What is another name for English-Spanish words?
context: Because of its relative isolation from other Spanish-speaking areas over most of its 400-year existence, New Mexico Spanish, and in particular the Spanish of northern New Mexico and Colorado has retained many elements of 16th- and 17th-century Spanish and has developed its own vocabulary. In addition, it contains many words from Nahuatl, the language spoken by the ancient Aztecs of Mexico. New Mexican Spanish also contains loan words from the Pueblo languages of the upper Rio Grande Valley, Mexican-Spanish words (mexicanismos), and borrowings from English. Grammatical changes include the loss of the second person verb form, changes in verb endings, particularly in the preterite, and partial merging of the second and third conjugations.

qas: question: What is Texas official language?
answers: text: In Texas, English is the state's de facto official language

question: Are there exceptions to Texas official language?
answers: text: , the continual influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants increased the import of Spanish in Texas.

question: How does Texas handle people who don't speak English, but live in Mexico?
answers: text: . The Government of Texas, through Section 2054.116 of the Government Code, mandates that state agencies provide information on their websites in Spanish

question: How does this mandate help Spanish speaking residents?
answers: text: websites in Spanish to assist residents who have limited English proficiency.

question: What is Mexico official language?

question: Are there exceptions to Mexico official language?

question: How does Texas handle people who don't speak Spanish?

question: What are most of Mexico's counties bordering Texas?

question: What has increased the import of English in Texas?
context: In Texas, English is the state's de facto official language (though it lacks de jure status) and is used in government. However, the continual influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants increased the import of Spanish in Texas. Texas's counties bordering Mexico are mostly Hispanic, and consequently, Spanish is commonly spoken in the region. The Government of Texas, through Section 2054.116 of the Government Code, mandates that state agencies provide information on their websites in Spanish to assist residents who have limited English proficiency.

qas: question: What language, other than English, is spoken in the U.S.?
answers: text: Spanish is currently the most widely taught non-English language

question: Are students taught Spanish in american schools?
answers: text: More than 1.4 million university students were enrolled in language courses

question: How popular are Spanish language classes in the U.S,?
answers: text: Spanish is the most widely taught language in American colleges and universities with 53 percent of the total number of people enrolled

question: What other languages are popular among American students?
answers: text: French (14.4%), German (7.1%), Italian (4.5%), American Sign language (4.3%), Japanese (3.7%), and Chinese (2.4%)

question: Are these other languages learned in the U.S. as popular as Spanish?
answers: text: totals remain relatively small in relation to the total U.S population.

question: What language other than American is spoken in the U.S.?

question: How popular are English classes in the U.S.?

question: What other languages are popular among Mexican students?

question: Are there other languages learned in the U.S. besides English?

question: How many university students were enrolled in autumn of 2002?
context: Spanish is currently the most widely taught non-English language in American secondary schools and of higher education. More than 1.4 million university students were enrolled in language courses in autumn of 2002 and Spanish is the most widely taught language in American colleges and universities with 53 percent of the total number of people enrolled, followed by French (14.4%), German (7.1%), Italian (4.5%), American Sign language (4.3%), Japanese (3.7%), and Chinese (2.4%) although the totals remain relatively small in relation to the total U.S population.

qas: question: What political speaches are delivered in English and Spanish?
answers: text: The State of the Union Addresses and other presidential speeches are translated to Spanish

question: Was this always the case in American political addresses?
answers: text: following the precedent set by the Bill Clinton administration. Official Spanish translations are available at WhiteHouse.gov.

question: Does Washington (government) operate in both languages (bilingual-Spanish?)
answers: text: politicians fluent in Spanish-speak in Spanish to Hispanic majority constituencies

question: If someone is not bilingual and only speaks Spanish, how do they learn about current events?
answers: text: There are 500 Spanish newspapers, 152 magazines, and 205 publishers in the United States; magazine and local television

question: Is the Hispanic population relevant to the American media?
answers: text: local television advertising expenditures for the Hispanic market have increased much from 1999 to 2003, with growth of 58 percent and 43 percent, respectively.

question: What speech is delivered only in English?

question: How many newspapers are there in Spain?

question: When did advertising for the English market increase?

question: How much did advertising for the English market increase from 1999 to 2000.

question: What language is used in the State of the Union?
context: The State of the Union Addresses and other presidential speeches are translated to Spanish, following the precedent set by the Bill Clinton administration. Official Spanish translations are available at WhiteHouse.gov. Moreover, non-Hispanic American origin politicians fluent in Spanish-speak in Spanish to Hispanic majority constituencies. There are 500 Spanish newspapers, 152 magazines, and 205 publishers in the United States; magazine and local television advertising expenditures for the Hispanic market have increased much from 1999 to 2003, with growth of 58 percent and 43 percent, respectively.

qas: question: Are there studies on Hispanic-American language?
answers: text: Calvin Veltman undertook, for the National Center for Education Statistics and for the Hispanic Policy Development Project

question: What is Calvin Veltman' study about?
answers: text: the most complete study of English language adoption by Hispanophone immigrants

question: What was Calvin Veltman' findings?
answers: text: high bilingualism rates and subsequent adoption of English as the preferred language of Hispanics, particularly by the young and the native-born.

question: Is Calvin Veltman' relevant to today's Hispanic Americans?
answers: text: his study based itself upon a large 1976 sample from the Bureau of the Census (which has not been repeated),

question: Are there other similar findings similar to Calvin Veltman' for the modern age?
answers: text: data from the 1990 Census tend to confirm the great Anglicization of the US Hispanic American origin population.

question: Who undertook the most complete study of Hispanic language adoption?

question: What demographics did Veltman exclude from the study?

question: Data from which census confirms the great Anglicization of the billingual population?

question: What is the preferred language of Hispanophone immigrants?

question: How many generations are required for a Native American to assimilate?
context: Calvin Veltman undertook, for the National Center for Education Statistics and for the Hispanic Policy Development Project, the most complete study of English language adoption by Hispanophone immigrants. Mr Veltman's language shift studies document high bilingualism rates and subsequent adoption of English as the preferred language of Hispanics, particularly by the young and the native-born. The complete set of these studies' demographic projections postulates the near-complete assimilation of a given Hispanophone immigrant cohort within two generations. Although his study based itself upon a large 1976 sample from the Bureau of the Census (which has not been repeated), data from the 1990 Census tend to confirm the great Anglicization of the US Hispanic American origin population.

qas: question: Which century did the US incorporate Spanish? 

question: Which acquisition reinforced the Spanish language? 

question: What year did Puerto Rico become a state? 

question: Which countries came in major emigrations to the US?

question: What grows in the US as the Spanish population increases?

question: What was incorporated to the united states in the first half of the 18th century?

question: When was the aquisition of Spain?

question: What is one of the fastest growing demographics in Spain?

question: What strengthened the role of the English language in the the country?

question: Who increases the use and importance of American English in the United States?
context: After the incorporation of these states to the United States in the first half of the 19th century, the Spanish language was later reinforced in the country by the acquisition of Puerto Rico in 1898. Later waves of emigration from Mexico, Cuba, El Salvador and elsewhere in Hispanic America to the United States beginning in the second half of the 19th century to the present-day have strengthened the role of the Spanish language in the country. Today, Hispanics are one of the fastest growing demographics in the United States, thus increasing the use and importance of American Spanish in the United States.