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Publication details [#29403]

Althoff, Daniel. 1994. Afro-Mestizo speech from Costa Chica, Guerrero: From Cuaji to Cuijla. Language Problems and Language Planning 18 (3) : 242–256.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | language contact | language loss | language maintenance | standardization

Language as a subject

Spanish, African | Spanish, Mexican

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This paper traces the history of Africans in Mexico and compares historically-attested Africanized speech with present-day features in the Afro-Mestizo speech of the town and county of Cuajinicuilapa, one of the few remaining Mexican communities of identifiable African origin.