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Tropical tongues : language ideologies, endangerment, and minority languages in Belize /

Title
  1. Tropical tongues : language ideologies, endangerment, and minority languages in Belize / Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar and William Noel Salmon.
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  1. Chapel Hill : Institute for the Study of the Americas at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, [2018]
  2. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
  3. ©2018
Author
  1. Gómez Menjívar, Jennifer Carolina,

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Additional authors
  1. Salmon, William,
Description
  1. xvii, 105 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
Summary
  1. "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 districts at the potential expense of more vulnerable minority languages also spoken there. Using fieldwork, ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys of language attitudes and use, Gómez Menjívar and Salmon show the attenuation of Mopan and Garifuna alongside the stigmatized yet robust Kriol language. Examin[es] how large-scale economic restructuring can unsettle relationships among minority languages"--
Series statement
  1. Studies in Latin America
Uniform title
  1. Studies in Latin America.
Subject
  1. Belize
  2. Belize > Languages
  3. Belize
  4. Creole dialects, English > Belize
  5. Creole dialects, English
  6. Garifuna
  7. Garifuna language > Belize
  8. Garifuna language
  9. Kreolische Sprachen
  10. Language and languages
  11. Languages in contact > Belize
  12. Languages in contact
  13. Minderheitensprache
  14. Mopan dialect > Belize
  15. Mopan dialect
  16. Mopan-Sprache
  17. Sprachkontakt
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-105).