After working in the construction of the railroad that communicates Limón with San José, many Afro-Caribbean people who had arrived during the 1870’s, especially from Jamaica, stayed and established themselves in Limón. In the 20th century, some Costa Rican Spanish speakers started to migrate to Limón; as a result, their Spanish language influenced Limonese Creole and made speakers start substituting some English lexicon, root morphemes, and word order for the Spanish one. As time has passed, more Costa Rican Spanish elements have been incorporated and mixed into the English Creole. In addition, many of the inhabitants of Limón who spoke Limonese Creole moved to San José and adopted Spanish. Depending on the event or situation, Limonese use...
In the XIX century, a mostly Afro-Jamaican linguistic minority settled down on the Caribbean coast o...
The two African English-lexifier Creole languages Krio (Sierra Leone) and Pichi (Equatorial Guinea) ...
The claim has frequently been made by scholars that Africans in the Spanish Caribbean, deprived of t...
After working in the construction of the railroad that communicates Limón with San José, many Afro-...
History has shown that whenever there is a situation of languages in contact, it develops either int...
El siguiente es un estudio descriptivo el cual presenta la tendencia de cinco estudiantes nativo-hab...
Los procesos de colonialidad ejercidos alrededor del mundo han lesionado valores y principios de her...
This study combines sociohistorical and linguistic insights to cast light on the nature and origin o...
This article presents a reflection of Limonese Creole and how speakers of other languages havepercei...
Spanglish is a language phenomenon that has arisen in Puerto Rico as a result of almost a century of...
The primary purpose for this research is to examine and identify the social functions of Limón Patwa...
El estudio analiza conceptos esenciales para comprender la relación entre lengua, cultura, identidad...
This study is a sociolinguistic investigation into the Spanish spoken in El Palenque de San Basilio,...
The present paper studies the lexical borrowing and code switching in the Creole of San Andres Islan...
Phrases and idiomatic expressions used in everyday speech in Limon Creole by a group of elderly peop...
In the XIX century, a mostly Afro-Jamaican linguistic minority settled down on the Caribbean coast o...
The two African English-lexifier Creole languages Krio (Sierra Leone) and Pichi (Equatorial Guinea) ...
The claim has frequently been made by scholars that Africans in the Spanish Caribbean, deprived of t...
After working in the construction of the railroad that communicates Limón with San José, many Afro-...
History has shown that whenever there is a situation of languages in contact, it develops either int...
El siguiente es un estudio descriptivo el cual presenta la tendencia de cinco estudiantes nativo-hab...
Los procesos de colonialidad ejercidos alrededor del mundo han lesionado valores y principios de her...
This study combines sociohistorical and linguistic insights to cast light on the nature and origin o...
This article presents a reflection of Limonese Creole and how speakers of other languages havepercei...
Spanglish is a language phenomenon that has arisen in Puerto Rico as a result of almost a century of...
The primary purpose for this research is to examine and identify the social functions of Limón Patwa...
El estudio analiza conceptos esenciales para comprender la relación entre lengua, cultura, identidad...
This study is a sociolinguistic investigation into the Spanish spoken in El Palenque de San Basilio,...
The present paper studies the lexical borrowing and code switching in the Creole of San Andres Islan...
Phrases and idiomatic expressions used in everyday speech in Limon Creole by a group of elderly peop...
In the XIX century, a mostly Afro-Jamaican linguistic minority settled down on the Caribbean coast o...
The two African English-lexifier Creole languages Krio (Sierra Leone) and Pichi (Equatorial Guinea) ...
The claim has frequently been made by scholars that Africans in the Spanish Caribbean, deprived of t...