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There are a number of Spanish units of measurement of length or area that are virtually obsolete due to metrication. They include the vara , the cordel , the league and the labor . The units of area used to express the area of land are still encountered in some transactions in land today.
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The Huichol language (Huichol: Wixárika) is an indigenous language of Mexico which belongs to the Uto-Aztecan language family.It is spoken by the ethnic group widely known as the Huichol (self-designation Wixaritari), whose mountainous territory extends over portions of the Mexican states of Jalisco, San Luis Potosí, Nayarit, Zacatecas, and Durango, mostly in Jalisco.
Though the definition of the term Hispanic may vary, it generally refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad.It is commonly applied to countries once part of the Spanish Empire, particularly the countries of Latin America, Equatorial Guinea, and Spanish Sahara.
At the time of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century, Aymara was the dominant language over a much larger area than today, including most of highland Peru south of Cusco. Over the centuries, Aymara has gradually lost speakers both to Spanish and to Quechua; many Peruvian and Bolivian communities that were once Aymara-speaking now speak ...
(in Spanish) Diccionario y gramática chibcha – World Digital Library (in Spanish) Muysc cubun Project – with Muysc cubun–Spanish dictionary (in Spanish) Archives and sources on the Chibcha language – Rosetta Project (in Spanish) Animated video about the last Muisca rulers – Muysccubun is spoken with Spanish subtitles
Today in the Spanish language, Doña is used to respectfully refer to a mature woman. In present-day Hispanic America, the title Don or Doña is sometimes used in honorific form when addressing a senior citizen. In some countries, Don or Doña may be used as a generic honorific, similar to Sir and Madam in the United States.
Purépecha (also Pʼurhépecha [pʰuˈɽepet͡ʃa], Purepecha: Phorhé or Phorhépecha), often called Tarascan (Spanish: Tarasco), a term coined by Spanish settlers that can be seen as pejorative, [2] is a language isolate or small language family that is spoken by some 140,000 Purépecha in the highlands of Michoacán, Mexico.