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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Amazonian Spanish |
Subtitle of host publication | Language Contact and Evolution |
Editors | Stephen Fafulas |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishers |
Pages | 259–286 |
Number of pages | 28 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789027261526 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789027204981 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |