Abstract Research on Guatemalan Spanish has increasingly shown the effects of contact
with Mayan languages. However, whereas most studies have focused on the structural …

This chapter presents a broad overview of the sociolinguistic literature since 2008 from the
seven countries that make up Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala …

Este artículo presenta una investigación del estado actual del bilingüismo k'iche'-español y
las actitudes hacia ello en dos municipios guatemaltecos: uno ubicado cerca de un centro …

When compared to monolingual Mexicans, many US-born Mexican Americans experience a
more linguistically complex reality, navigating between two languages of different …

In 1983, John Lipski wrote that, in comparison to the rest of Latin America, the linguistic
study of Central American Spanish (henceforth CAS) varieties was “still in diapers”(p. 272) …

En este artículo se exponen los últimos avances realizados en una investigación de
doctorado que se inserta en el marco teórico de la lingüística antropológica y parte del …

There are 55 groups of Indigenous people living in Peru who speak 48 Indigenous
languages. Some bilingual intercultural education programs (educación intercultural …

Whitney Chappell, The University of Texas at San Antonio Abstract: Historically, the Atlantic
Coast of Nicaragua has been a multilingual and multicultural region isolated from the …

Tropical Tongues examines the precarious state of minority languages in coastal Belize, as
Kriol has risen to the level of a national language in the period following the country's …

The historical evolution of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua has given rise to a multilingual
and multicultural region that has been, until relatively recently, sheltered from the Spanish …