Dialect Death: The Case of Brule Spanish

by Charles E. Holloway

The Brule Dwellers of Ascension Parish are descendants of Canary Island immigrants who came to Louisiana in the late 1700s. A few residents in and around the Ascension Parish area still speak an archaic dialect of Spanish which is at the brink of linguistic extinction. Because the Brule dialect is in the final stages of what is commonly known as "language death", the case of Brule Spanish presents an exciting opportunity to investigate commonly held...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556195478
• ISBN13: 9781556195471
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 220 Pages