Dialect Death: The case of Brule Spanish
Charles E. Holloway
The Brule Dwellers of Ascension Parish are descendants of Canary Island immigrants who came to Louisiana in the late 1700s. A few residents in and around the Ascension Parish area still speak an archaic dialect of Spanish which is at the brink of linguistic extinction. Because the Brule dialect is… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 13] 1997. x, 220 pp.