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Chicanos and
Mexican AmericansAccording to Chicano artist and writer José Antonio Burciaga
"Caló originally defined the Spanish gypsy dialect. But Chicano Caló is the combination of a few basic influences Hispanicized English; Anglicized Spanish; and the use of archaic 15th-century Spanish words such as truje for traer (to bring), or haiga, for haya from haber (to have). These words were left in isolated pockets of Northern New Mexico and the Southwest, especially New Mexico, by conquistadores españoles."
He goes on to describe the speech of his father, a native El Pasoan
