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- Title
Lengua suto é ngande [our language is great]: Emerging Discourse Markers in Revitalized Palenquero (Afro-Colombian Spanish Creole).
- Authors
Lipski, John
- Abstract
Due to recent language revitalization efforts in the village of San Basilio de Palenque, the traditional creole language Palenquero is now taught in the community's schools and many young residents are acquiring Palenquero as a second language. At the same time recent changes in community attitudes, coupled with frequent visits by linguistic researchers, have resulted in heightened metalinguistic awareness as traditional speakers strive to produce the “best" Palenquero creole. The present study examines emergent traits in young learners' Palenquero as well as apparent recent innovations in the speech of adult bilinguals, which in their totality provide a glimpse into the possible future of the Palenquero language.
- Subjects
SAN Basilio del Palenque (Colombia); SPANISH Creole dialects; LANGUAGE revival; ENDANGERED languages; BLACK Colombians; COLOMBIAN literature
- Publication
Revista de Estudios Colombianos, 2016, Issue 47, p49
- ISSN
0121-2117
- Publication type
Article