Tropical Tongues(English, Paperback, Menjivar Jennifer Carolina Gomez)

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Tropical Tongues(English, Paperback, Menjivar Jennifer Carolina Gomez) is written by Menjivar Jennifer Carolina Gomez and published by The University of North Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1469641399 (ISBN 10) and 9781469641393 (ISBN 13).

Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize examines the precarious state of languages in coastal Belize. In the period following the country's independence in 1981, Kriol has risen to the level of a national language. While the prestige enjoyed by English and Spanish is indisputable, a range of historical and socio-economic developments has given Kriol an elevated status in the coastal districts at the potential expense of more vulnerable minority languages also spoken there. Using fieldwork, ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys of language attitudes and use, Gomez Menjivar and Salmon show the attenuation of Mopan and Garifuna alongside the stigmatized yet robust Kriol language. Language endangerment studies generally focus on the loss of a minority language to a European language. Tropical Tongues presents a fresh perspective on language shift and loss by examining how large-scale economic restructuring can unsettle relationships among minority languages.