Tropical Tongues : Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize /

"In the period following the country's independence in 1981, Kriol has risen to the level of a national language. While the prestige enjoyed by English and Spanish is indisputable, a range of historical and socio-economic developments has given Kriol an elevated status in the coastal distr...

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Main Authors: Gómez Menjívar, Jennifer Carolina (Author), Salmon, William (Author)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Chapel Hill : Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [2018]
Serier:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • The lush tongues of the Americas
  • The languages of Belize in context
  • Kriol: from minority to national language
  • Mopan: between tradition and change
  • Garifuna: an ethnolinguistic identity in flux
  • Forces of change on language ecologies in Belize.