Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize (Studies in Latin America)

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Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize examines the precarious state of languages in coastal Belize. Within the period following the rustic’s independence in 1981, Kriol has risen to the level of a national language. Whilst the prestige enjoyed by English and Spanish is indisputable, a range of historical and socio-economic developments has given Kriol an elevated status Within the coastal districts at the potential expense of more vulnerable minority languages also spoken there. The use of fieldwork, ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys of language attitudes and use, Gomez Menjivar and Salmon show the attenuation of Mopan and Garifuna alongside the stigmatized yet robust Kriol language. Language endangerment studies in most cases focal point at the lack of a minority language to a European language. Tropical Tongues presents a fresh viewpoint on language shift and loss by examining how large-scale economic restructuring can unsettle relationships among minority languages.

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