Decolonizing Spanish: Ladino and Chavacano as Sites of Global Hispanophonia

• Main Author: Yebra López, Carlos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: California Digital Library (CDL) 2022
• Subjects: decolonial linguistics; Global Hispanophone; Spanish; Ladino; Chavacano; Cervantes; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177308/1/qt9976n91g.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177308/

The current institutional attempts by the Cervantes Institute of Manila and the Spanish Royal Academy of Tel Aviv to revitalize Chavacano and Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), respectively, by assimilating them into Spanish pose a fundamental paradox: how can the official institutions of the Spanish language...