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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Chapel Hill :
Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.