Lingo is a populated place in Roosevelt County,

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, United States, located at latitude 33.7884278 and longitude -103.1146674, at 3,986 feet of elevation. The original name given the settlement in 1916 was “Need”, but U.S. postal authorities said that was too much like “ Weed” in Otero County,Pearce, T.M. (editor) with Cassidy, Ina Sizer and Pearce, Helen S. (1965) "Lingo" ''New Mexico Place Names; A Geographical Dictionary'' University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, page 88 so in 1918 the name was changed to "Lingo". The community

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was originally located three miles south of the current location on New Mexico State Road 114, seven miles south of Causey and five miles from the

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border.Julyan, Robert Hixson (1998) "Lingo" ''The Place Names of New Mexico'' (second edition) University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, page 204, An early authority on New Mexico place names states the name was derived from the Southwestern

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" (from

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''lingua'' tongue), but a later authority states that the name more likely resulted from a

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{{authority control Populated places established in 1918 Unincorporated communities in New Mexico Unincorporated communities in Roosevelt County, New Mexico