The many Spanishes of an Andean-Amazonian crossroads

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Abstract

In the Southern Peruvian Amazon, agricultural migrants from the Andes have brought Quechua and Andean Spanish into the traditional Amazonian territory of Matsigenka speakers. This chapter offers an ethnographic and socio-historical view of Andean Spanish on one corner of this Amazonian frontier. The social life of Spanish in this region is illustrated through the lives of three community-mates, whose speech exhibits diverse contact effects reflecting the diversity of their frontier experiences. This case shows how, unlike Spanish in the Andes, which developed in the highlands without a major migratory influx from other regions, Amazonian varieties of Spanish emerged as more or less heterogeneous populations from other places migrated and came together with the speakers of dozens of local indigenous languages.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAmazonian Spanish
Subtitle of host publicationLanguage Contact and Evolution
EditorsStephen Fafulas
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishers
Pages259–286
Number of pages28
ISBN (Electronic)9789027261526
ISBN (Print)9789027204981
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

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