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Year: 1982 Publisher: San José, Costa Rica : Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica
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ISBN: 1108624529 1108661785 9781108661782 1108485812 110862409X 9781108485814 9781108724777 1108724779 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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Exploring creole studies from a linguistic, historical, and socio-cultural perspective, this study advances our knowledge of the subject by using a cohesive approach to provide new theoretical insights into language shift, language acquisition and language change. It compares the legal system regulating black slavery in Chocó, Colombia with the systems implemented by other European colonial powers in the Americas, to address questions such as what do Chocó Spanish linguistic features say about the nature of Afro-Hispanic vernaculars? What were the sociohistorical conditions in which Chocó Spanish formed? Was slavery in Chocó much different from slavery in other European colonies? Whilst primarily focused on Afro-Hispanic language varieties, Sessarego's findings and methodology can be easily applied and tested to other contact languages and settings, and used to address current debates on the origin of other black communities in the Americas and the languages they speak.
Choco languages. --- Creole dialects, Spanish --- Languages in contact --- Spanish Creole languages --- Areal linguistics --- Choco language --- Cholo languages --- Chibchan languages --- Choco languages
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ISBN: 1477308334 1477308318 Year: 2016 Publisher: University of Texas Press
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Once spoken only in Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala, the Xinkan language family is unique within Mesoamerica, comprising four closely related languages that are unrelated to any of the other language groups used within the region. Descriptions of Xinkan date to 1770 but are typically only sketches or partial word lists. Not even the community of indigenous people who identify as Xinka today—the last speakers—have had access to a reliable descriptive source on their ancestral tongue. Preserving this endangered communication system in accurate, thorough detail, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages presents a historical framework, internal classifications, and both synchronic and diachronic descriptions, incorporating all elements of grammar based on extensive unpublished data collected in the 1970s by Lyle Campbell and Terrence Kaufman. This valuable contribution is enhanced by author Chris Rogers’s emphasis on contextualizing the findings. Introducing the languages, Rogers presents important information regarding the social and cultural milieu of the speakers. He also traces a phonological reconstruction of Proto-Xinkan and reconstructs historical morphology and syntax. These revelations are of particular interest because the development of Xinka and the many aspects of Xinka morphosyntax have not been well understood. A sample text, “Na Mulha Uy,” is included as well. Solving numerous complex, centuries-old linguistic puzzles, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages unlocks new potential for the rediscovery of a rich cultural history.
Indians of South America --- Extinct languages --- Xinca language --- Languages. --- Grammar, Historical. --- Guatemala --- Ikomagi language --- Jinca language --- Shinca language --- Sinca language --- Szinca language --- Xincan language --- Xinka language --- Chibchan languages --- Dead languages --- Languages, Extinct --- Language and languages --- Language obsolescence --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnology
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