Dialect Identity in a Tri-Ethnic Context
The Case of Lumbee American Indian English
Walt Wolfram | Department of English, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695–8105, USA, e-mail: wolfram@social.chass.ncsu.edu
Clare Dannenberg | English Department, Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University, Blacksburg VA 24061–0112, USA, e-mail: cjdannen@vt.edu
This study examines the development of a Native American Indian variety of English in the context of a rural community in the American South where European Americans, African Americans and Native American Indians have lived together for a couple of centuries now. The Lumbee Native American Indians, the largest Native American group east of the Mississippi River and the largest group in the United States without reservation land, lost their ancestral language relatively early in their contact with outside groups, but they have carved out a unique English dialect niche which now distinguishes them from cohort European American and African American vernaculars. Processes of selective accommodation, differential language change and language innovation have operated to develop this distinct ethnic variety, while their cultural isolation and sense of "otherness" in a bi-polar racial setting have served to maintain its ethnic marking.
Published online: 13 March 2000
https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.20.2.01wol
https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.20.2.01wol
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