TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gómez Menjívar,Jennifer Carolina
AU  - Salmon,William
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize 
T2  - Studies in Latin America
SN  - 9781469641416
AV  - P40.5.L382 B424 2018
U1  - 306.44/97282 23
KW  - Garifuna language
KW  - Belize
KW  - Mopan dialect
KW  - Creole dialects, English
KW  - Languages in contact
KW  - Languages
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-105); The lush tongues of the Americas -- The languages of Belize in context -- Kriol: from minority to national language -- Mopan: between tradition and change -- Garifuna: an ethnolinguistic identity in flux -- Forces of change on language ecologies in Belize; Open Access
N2  - "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, Gómez Menjívar and Salmon show the attenuation of Mopan and Garifuna alongside the stigmatized yet robust Kriol language. Examin[es] how large-scale economic restructuring can unsettle relationships among minority languages" --
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/65713/
ER  -