Hispanicization in the Welsh settlement of Chubut Province, Argentina: some current linguistic developments

Rees, Iwan Wyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5859-3839 2021. Hispanicization in the Welsh settlement of Chubut Province, Argentina: some current linguistic developments. Perez, Danae and Sippola, Eeva, eds. Postcolonial Language Varieties in the Americas, Koloniale und Postkoloniale Linguistik / Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics (KPL/CPL), vol. 18. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 239-269. (10.1515/9783110723977-008)

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Abstract

Patagonian Welsh, which has been in contact with Spanish to various degrees for over 150 years in Chubut Province, Argentina, provides a fascinating case study for examining different outcomes of language contact. However, very few previous studies have attempted to provide a systematic analysis of the linguistic characteristics of Patagonian Welsh, and the linguistic repercussions of the revival of Welsh in Chubut since the 1990s have never been investigated before. This study therefore constitutes the first attempt to analyze several linguistic features of the variety of Welsh currently spoken in Chubut, mainly from a contact perspective. The results establish a number of differences (as well as similarities) between various speaker types, namely heritage speakers, heritage learners and L2 learners. Consequently, the implications of the data for pedagogical practices in Chubut and for heritage languages generally will be explored.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Welsh
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages P Language and Literature > PB Modern European Languages > PB1001 Celtic languages and literature
Publisher:	De Gruyter
ISBN:	9783110723908
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2025 11:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/125624

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