Research
Languages and linguistic practices
of the New World
Director: Munia Cabal Jiménez (Western Illinois University)
The encounter of languages that occurs from the sixteenth century in America gives way to a series of processes and phenomena that portray very well the linguistic vitality of participating speech communities that account for the verbal wealth of the Indian world. The very life of a society, in all its spheres (cultural, scientific, political, educational), is reflected in the language and social flow of human groups is represented in it. This line of research will be devoted to the task of developing the first historical linguistic map of both the Amerindian languages as well as the Neolatin varieties used before and after the independence processes.
Researchers: Munia Cabal Jiménez (Western Illinois University) and María Gracia Madalengoitia Barúa (Universidad del Pacífico)
Actividades
- Identify the languages spoken in the different viceroyalties
- Determine the status and profile of the languages used in American geography
- Develop digital linguistic maps that reflect the geographic distribution of both Amerindian and Neolatine languages