Palenquero origins

A tale of more than two languages

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20344887
AutoresMikael Parkvall (0000-0002-0840-1357, Stockholm University), Bart Jacobs (0000-0003-0075-6732, Jagiellonian University Kraków)
Año2020
Volumen37
Número4
Páginas540-576
Fecha de publicación2020-12-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiachronica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/dia.19019.par
OpenAlexW3043782340
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas79

Palenquero is a Spanish-lexified creole spoken in Columbia. We argue that existing hypotheses regarding its birth are problematic in several regards. This article addresses the inconsistencies in these hypotheses and provides an alternative, more coherent account. More precisely, we take issue with the following three claims: (a) Palenquero is the result of a two-language encounter; (b) it has its roots in a West African Afro-Portuguese proto-variety; (c) an ancestral form of the creole emerged in the port city of Cartagena. We then set out to present our own, more economical, formation scenario, according to which Palenquero was formed in the early 1600s in the linguistically heterogenous maroon communities of the Cartagenan hinterlands

Art · Creole language · Ethnology · Geography · Linguistics · Maroon · Portuguese · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Artificial Intelligence