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The close relationship puerto rico shares with both the united states and english has led people to mix many english words with spoken spanish. this mixed and informal method of communication is called?

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The mix between English and Spanish is called:

- Spanglish.

Step-by-step explanation:

The term "Spanglish" begin to be used in 1948, by Salvador Tió, poet and writer, whose nationality is Puerto-Rican (first reason of the close relationship between Puerto Rico and the word), this word has big relevance among the Latin American that live in the USA because many people arrive speaking their mother tongue and must mix it with the English for gradually learn it.

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the mixture of english and spanish languages used by puerto rican people is called Spanglish.

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