African diaspora and the circulation of language

Cuban and Afro-Cuban loanwords in Equatorial Guinea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4179328
AutoresSusana Castillo-Rodríguez (0000-0002-7560-1551, Saint Anselm College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen2016
Número239
Fecha de publicación2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl-2016-0008
OpenAlexW2364969820
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas13

When in 1861 nearly 200 emancipated black Cubans settled in the "Barrio Congo" of Fernando Po to work in public construction, a process of language contact initiated. Four years later, a few hundred political activists were deported from Cuba to Fernando Po because of their potential influence in the Cuban revolution. This historical episode might have triggered Cubans' and Afro-Cubans' lexical transfers to the Spanish spoken in Fernando Po as a result of the two-way connection of the transatlantic slave trade. Based on royal decrees, archival material and the memoirs of Cuban exiles (Balmaseda, Francisco Javier. [1869] 1874

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