OLAC Record oai:scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu:10125/4547

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Title:		The Sociolinguistic Situation of the Manila Bay Chabacano-Speaking Communities
Bibliographic Citation:		Lesho, Marivic, Sippola, Eeva; 2013-04-14; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4547.
Creator:		Lesho, Marivic
		Sippola, Eeva
Date (W3CDTF):		2013-04-14
Description:		This study is an assessment of the vitality of the Manila Bay Chabacano varieties spoken in Cavite City and Ternate, Philippines. These Spanish-lexified creoles have often been described as endangered, but until now there has been no systematic description of how stable the varieties are. The evaluation of the vitality of Manila Bay Chabacano is made based on participant observation and interviews conducted in both communities over the past nine years, using the UNESCO (2003) framework. Comparison between the two varieties shows that the proportional size of the speech community, degree of urbanization, and proximity to Manila account for differences in the vitality of the creoles. In rural Ternate, Chabacano is more stable in terms of intergenerational transmission and the proportion of speakers to the overall community. In the more urban Cavite City, most speakers are of the grandparental generation, but the community is more organized in its language preservation efforts. This study sheds light on two creole varieties in need of further documentation and sociolinguistic description, as well as the status of minority languages in the Philippines. It also offers a critical assessment of a practically-oriented methodological framework and demonstrates its application in the field.
Format:		30
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/4547
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Rights:		Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
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Subject:		sociolinguistics, Philippines
Table Of Contents:		lesho.pdf
Type:		Article
Type (DCMI):		Text
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DateStamp:		2024-09-11
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Citation:		Lesho, Marivic; Sippola, Eeva. 2013. Language Documentation and Conservation.
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