and tone. Loanword phonology indicates the type of phonetic/phonological changes that New Mexican Spanish loanwords undergo when being adapted to the Taos language. Different degrees of nativization occur in Spanish loanwords: earlier borrowings have greater differences while later borrowings (borrowed by speakers who are probably increasingly bilingual) have much greater similarity with the Spanish forms. The chart below lists some of the correspondences. The inflected nouns in the table are in the absolute singular form with the inflectional suffix and any reduplicant separated from the initial noun stem with hyphens. {| class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.1em;" ! rowspan="3" | New Mexican Spanishphoneme(s) ! rowspan="3" | Taos phoneme(s) ! colspan="3" | Example |- ! colspan="2" | Taos ! rowspan="2" | Spanish |- style="font-size: small;" ! word ! gloss |- | (initial) | || || 'pocket' || < bolsa |- | (intervocalic) | || || 'Thursday' || < jueves |- | (initial) | || || 'week' || < domingo |- | rowspan="2" | (intervocalic) | || || 'Saturday' || < sábado |- | (after Taos ) || || 'fork' || < tenedor |- | | || || 'one's child's godmother' || < comadre |- | | || || 'pin' || < fistol |- | rowspan="2" | | (initial) || || 'rug' || < jerga |- | (intervocalic) || || 'the mother Virgin' || < virgen |- | () | || || 'Thursday' || < jueves |- | | || || 'bed spring' || < sopanda |- | | || || 'week' || < domingo |- | | || || 'canyon' || < cañón |- | | || || 'king' || < rey |- | | || || 'donkey' || < burro |- | | || || 'hammer' || < martillo |- | (before V) | || || 'mare' || < yegua |- | | || || 'Friday' || < viernes |- | | || || 'Monday' || < lunes |- | (before V) | || || 'mare' || < yegua |- | (stressed) | || || 'garden' || < huerta |- | (unstressed) | || || 'Wednesday' || < miércoles |- | | || || 'bull' || < toro |- | | || || 'pocket' || < bolsa |} Although NM Spanish is usually borrowed as Taos , it is nativized as when it precedes the Taos glide , which is the nativization of NM Spanish in the cluster ( > Taos ). Because