Unraveling the Linguistic Histories of Philippine Negritos

dc.contributor.authorReid, Lawrence A.
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-07T17:24:45Z
dc.date.available2014-05-07T17:24:45Z
dc.date.issued1994
dc.description.abstractThe Philippines is a particularly fertile field for the study of contact-induced language change. Within the last 500 years two major powers have colonized the Philippines, the Spanish for some 350 years and the Americans for 50. The former contact resulted in a number of Spanish-based creoles (ZamboangueƱo, etc.), and extensive lexical influence in most of the local Philippine languages that the Spanish used for proselytizing and political control. Ibanag, for example, one of the languages of the Cagayan Valley in Northern Luzon, has a considerable body of Spanish loanwords in its lexicon. Despite the strong lexical influence, Spanish influence on the phonological and syntactic systems of most Philippine languages appears to have been minimal.
dc.format.extent39 pages
dc.identifier.citationReid, Lawrence. "Unraveling the Linguistic Histories of Philippine Negritos." In Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian Word, edited by T.E. Dutton and D.T. Tryon, 443-475. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/33003
dc.subjectNegrito languages
dc.subjectMalayo-Polynesian languages
dc.subject.lcshLanguages in contact -- Pacific Area
dc.subject.lcshLanguages in contact -- Southeast Asia
dc.subject.lcshAustronesian languages -- History
dc.subject.lcshPhilippine languages
dc.subject.lcshNegritos--Languages
dc.titleUnraveling the Linguistic Histories of Philippine Negritos
dc.typeBook Chapter

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