Adult dragonflies are easy to recognize. They have long thin bodies, very large eyes, and they hold their 2 pairs of wings out flat on either side. Their legs sometimes have many long stiff hairs. Immature dragonflies are usually brown or greenish, and sometimes have algae growing on them.
Today languages used by small communities on the island include Corsican, Haitian Creole French, Eastern Yiddish, French, Italian, North & South Levantine, Ladino, Papiamentu, Standard German, and Chinese. The official language of Puerto Rico is Spanish but English and Puerto Rican sign language can be included in this category. In total there are about 3.950 million people who live in Puerto Rico, of which it is estimated that about 3.800 million people speak mainly Spanish and only about 82,000 speak English.
Puerto Rico's original name is Borinquen (in Spanish) Boriken, meaning Land of the Brave Lord in the language of the indeginous inhabitants, the Taino people. Cristopher Colum â¦ bus named the island San Juan Bautista or St. John the Baptist.The capital city was called Puerto Rico or Rich Port.At some point the names were reversed on documents sent to Spain; thus the island was named Puerto Rico and the capital was named San Juan.he Spanish named the island San Juan (Saint John). The major settlement and port on the north coast was named Puerto Rico. In time, cartographers (map makers) switched the names around and the island became known as Puerto Rico (Rich Port) and the city became San Juan.