‘Submercé if attarvan’, ‘my parents cachacos’ have you ever heard or used these words? In every part of the country, people use their own words. This is because language reflects the culture and aspects of each region that characterize the way people exist and think.
Therefore, there are dictionaries for each region. For example, José Elías Cury Lambraño brought together the words of the Caribbean coast in ‘El costeñol: un dialekto con todo la barba’ (2000); Spanish is spoken in Nariño’ (1975), as well as compilations of terms from Antioquia and Bogota, such as Luis Alberto Acuña’s ‘dictionary of bogotanism’ and Alberto Borda Carranza’s ‘Cachacario: dictionary of cachaquismos’.
The prestige of Colombian and Bogota comes from the period of Independence, when the Spanish language became the language. According to María Bernarda Espejo, MSc in Spanish Linguistics and a specialist in studies of Spanish at the Caro y Cuervo Institute in Colombia.
“The interest in preserving the purity of the language manifests itself and strives to preserve its unity. During this period, linguists such as Andrés Bello and later a famous philologist Rufino José Cuervo emerged and began the scholarly study of Bogota speech in his work ‘Critical notes on the Bogota language’,” says Espejo.
established lateror the Colombian Language Academy in 1872 (a first in the Americas). This fact undoubtedly contributed to the prestige of the Colombian language. and especially from Bogota.
The expert also points out that the educated classrooms in Bogota are always concerned with good language use. Thus, educated Bogota speech is characterized by certain linguistic features that begin to gain social prestige and distinguish its speakers.
From there emerges ‘cachaquismos’, which refers to a very specific way of being and speaking, typical of the Bogota people before 1950. “The term was used by young liberals in 1830, and especially by students who took part in the movements that preceded and accompanied the creation of New Granada, their opponents contemptuously calling them ‘cachacos’; but overcoming his ideals, it became a title of honor, and the word ‘cachaco’ came to mean a graceful and graceful young man. Later, ‘cachaco’ was used to name people from Bogota because of their elegant dress, way of being, pronunciation and use of idiomatic expressions and very specific ways of saying things”, explains María Bernarda.
However, now it is necessary to talk about ‘bogotanismos’ by referring to the words and phrases used in the capital.
The current Bogotá generation, made up of Bogotanos, the children of people from different parts of the country, has adopted new ways of saying and using or forms in accordance with the current life of this city.
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In addition to these words, there are some characteristic expressions used by people from the capital of the country.
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