abstract:Spanglish refers to the blend (at different degrees) of Spanish and English, in the speech of people who speak parts of two languages, or whose normal language is different from that of the country where they live. The term Spanglish was first brought into literature by the Puerto Rican Salvador Tió.
There are anumber of bilinguals, whospeak both EnglishandSpanish reasonably well but code-switch according to their dialog partner or context - some refer tothisphenomenon as Spanglish.