Noun. 1. A multilingual and multi-genre artistic and creative literary magazine.

The title “Tonguas” combines “tongues” and “lenguas,” indicating the open, multilingual, and inclusive nature of the group’s activities, “idiomas,” and aesthetics. Tonguas begins with the premise that Spanish is at the heart of Puerto Rican identity. At the same time, the collective has also held poet Victor Hernández Cruz’s statement to be worthy: “Bilingualism is not a limitation when it is in the hands of the writers” (Red Beans, 1991, pp. 9-10).