Palenquero
Sign in to savePalenquero (sometimes spelled Palenkero) or Palenque () is a Spanish-based creole language spoken in Colombia. It is believed to be a mixture of Kikongo (a language spoken in present-day Central African countries of the Angola, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo) and Spanish. However, there is not sufficient evidence to indicate that Palenquero is strictly the result of a two-language contact. It could also have absorbed elements of local indigenous languages.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Palenquero
- Language.nation
- The Colombian constitution recognizes minority languages as "official in their territories."
- Language.states
- Colombia
- Language.ethnicity
- 6,637 (2018)
- Language.speakers
- 2,788
- Language.date
- 2005
- Language.familycolor
- Creole
- Language.fam1
- Spanish Creole–Kikongo
- Language.region
- San Basilio de Palenque
- Language.iso3
- pln
- Language.glotto
- pale1260
- Language.glottorefname
- Palenquero
- Language.lingua
- 51-AAC-bc
- Language.script
- Latin (Spanish alphabet)
- Language.map
- Colombia - Bolívar - Mahates.svg
- Language.mapcaption
- Map highlighting Mahates municipality, where Palenque is located
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- History
- Palenque de San Basilio
- Decline
- Revitalization
- Antonio Cervantes
- UNESCO Heritage of Humanity
- Academic Interest
- Grammar
- Gender
- Plurality
- Verbs
- Copula
- Vocabulary
- Sample
- See also
- References
- External links
Palenquero (sometimes spelled Palenkero) or Palenque () is a Spanish-based creole language spoken in Colombia. It is believed to be a mixture of Kikongo (a language spoken in present-day Central African countries of the Angola, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo) and Spanish. However, there is not sufficient evidence to indicate that Palenquero is strictly the result of a two-language contact. It could also have absorbed elements of local indigenous languages.
Palenquero is considered to be the only surviving Spanish-based creole language in Latin America. In 2018 more than 6,600 people spoke this language.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Palenquero” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.