Miami's Unique Cuban-Influenced Dialect: A New English Emerges.
Linguistic analysts at Florida International University’s Cuban Research Institute (CRI) have identified a new dialect in Miami that blends Spanish meanings and English words into a colloquial form of language. The dialect incorporates "calques", or "borrowed translations" from a speaker’s native language directly into another. The researchers say that the dialect is a gradual assimilation from Spanish phraseology into a widely understood local parlance in English. The first waves of Cuban immigration were "just the beginning" of the process, with second-, third- and fourth-generation Cuban Americans, and now immigrants from other South and Central American countries in the Miami area, continuing its evolution.