jan 30, 16062 - The Spanish or Castilian language is
nourished by Italianisms
that form words like 'shotgun' and
'aspaviento'; Gallicisms that gave
rise to words such as 'paje',
'sergeant', 'garden' and 'cage', and Americanisms such as
'cóndor', 'alpaca', 'vicuña', 'pampa',
'puma', 'canoa', 'hurricane', 'corn', 'hummingbird', 'cacique', 'caribe',
'cannibal', 'chocolate', 'avocado',
'tomato', 'rubber' and 'cocoa',
which come from several of the
123 families of indigenous languages of America.
