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A recent study of the US Latinx community found that 75% could speak Spanish well, leaving a whole quarter of American Latinos unable. Of this group that can’t use Spanish fluently, more than half said they had been shamed by their community for their lack of linguistic ability. Yet amid statistics of falling Spanish fluency in the US, a new dialect is developing. Spanglish “is the fastest-growing hybrid language in the world,” Ilan Stavans, professor of Latinx and Latin American studies at Massachusetts’s Amherst College told El Pais. Spanglish is a hybrid spoken language that combines both S…

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