Iberian linguistic elements among the black population in New Netherland (1614–1664)
Since the slave population in New Netherland (1614–1664) was small compared to that of other Dutch Atlantic colonies such as Curaçao, Dutch Brazil, and Suriname, it has traditionally received little attention by scholars, including creolists. It is, therefore, not well known that traces of Iberian languages can be found among the black population of seventeenth-century Manhattan. While the paucity of sources does not allow us to make any decisive claims with regard to the importance of Spanish and Portuguese for the colony’s black community, this article attempts to reconstruct the language us... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, vol 34, iss 1 |
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eScholarship
University of California |
Schlagwörter: | Dutch / Portuguese / Spanish / Papiamentu / Kikongo / Kimbundu / Angola / Kongo / Brazil / Curacao / Linguistics / Historical Studies / Languages & Linguistics |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27396475 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27b485cf |