Afro-Bolivian Spanish (ABS) is an Afro-Hispanic vernacular spoken in the region of Los
Yungas, Department of La Paz, Bolivia. This language has only been recently brought to the …

This article provides a sociohistorical and linguistic account for the development of Afro-
Bolivian Spanish (ABS), an Afro-Hispanic vernacular spoken in Los Yungas, Department of …

The first sub-Saharan Africans taken to Spanish America as slaves arrived early in the 16th
century, and worked in the highland mines of Nueva Espana (Mexico) and especially in the …

Afro-Hispanic language is attested from the 15th century to the early 20th century in Spain,
Africa, and Latin America. The speech of bozales (slaves born in Africa and speaking …

" Introduction 1.1. Why this book? Of all the Afro-Hispanic languages of the Americas
(AHLAs), the one that more than any other has puzzled linguists interested in the origin and …

The African diaspora in Spanish America involved at least eight million individuals (Andrews
2004; Eltis et al. 1999; Rout 1976), and spanned more than four centuries. Despite the …

The pidginized Spanish learned by millions of Africans in Latin America had a profound but
as yet underexplored impact on the formation of Spanish American dialects. Literary …

John M. Lipski e Pennsylvania State University is study analyzes data on a unique Afro-
Hispanic dialect, spoken in remote areas of Bolivia by descendents of Africans who arrived …

The purpose of this article is to describe the vernacular Spanish of Palenque (Colombia),
and to explore whether current language use in this small but historically important Afro …

Abstract Since Afro-Hispanic linguistics continues to be severely hampered by a scarcity of
reliable contemporary research concerning Afro-Hispanic enclaves, several of which may …