The Romance Languages (Routledge Language - Family Descriptions)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 17, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780415052993
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics
First sentence: result of its widespread use by the early Jesuit missionaries; there are, however, also significant Amerindian-speaking communities from Chile northwards to Mexico. In linguistic terms, the Spanish of Latin America shares a number of features, especially at the phonological level, with the southern variant of peninsular Castilian, Andalusian, which, given the provenance of most of the early settlers, is hardly surprising.