La historia de la lengua española y el origen de los dialectos de España comienzan con la evolución lingüística del latín vulgar. Castellano y dialectos andaluces surgieron en la Península Ibérica (Hispania) durante la edad media. La emergencia del español moderno más o menos coincidió con la reconquista de la España musulmana, que fue completada por Isabel de Castilla y Fernando de Aragón.
El idioma español se originó en la región suroeste de Europa, conocida como la Península Ibérica. En algún momento antes de que finalice el siglo sexto antes de Cristo, los primeros habitantes de la región, los ibéricos, comenzaron a mezclarse con los celtas, un pueblo nómada de Europa central. Los dos grupos formaron un pueblo llamado los celtíberos, hablando una forma de celta.
Bajo la dominación romana, en el 19 aC, la región llegó a ser conocido como Hispania, y sus habitantes aprendió latín de los comerciantes, los colonos, los administradores y los soldados romanos. Cuando el latín clásico de las clases educadas romanos mezclados con las lenguas pre-romanas de los íberos, celtas, cartagineses y, una lengua llamada latín vulgar apareció. Se siguió a los modelos básicos de latín, pero tomados y añadidos palabras de los otros idiomas.
Aún después de los visigodos, tribus germánicas de Europa oriental, invadieron Hispania en los años 400 AD, el latín siguió siendo la lengua oficial del gobierno y la cultura hasta alrededor del año 719, cuando de habla árabe grupos islámicos de África del Norte llaman moros completaron su conquista de la región. Árabe y un dialecto relacionado llamado Mozárabe llegó a ser ampliamente hablado en la España islámica, excepto en unos pocos reinos cristianos remotas en el norte, como Asturias, donde sobreviv...
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...stas y liberales, que alentaron un cierto renacimiento literario del gallego , sobre todo de carácter político , con piezas en verso y diálogos o discursos en prosa , que son de interés hoy en día desde el punto de vista de la historia de la lengua y la sociedad de la región. Sin embargo , el verdadero renacimiento no llegó hasta la mitad del camino a través del siglo 19 , sobre todo a través de la poesía. Se convirtió en la lengua cooficial de Galicia en 1981, pero también se habla en las zonas de Asturias y Castilla- León. Hoy casi dos millones de personas hablan gallego, aunque debido a su similitud con el castellano y las múltiples interferencias derivadas de un bilingüismo prácticamente universales , por lo que es muy difícil hacer un cálculo exacto . A esta cifra hay que añadir las comunidades gallegas que viven en países de América Latina que lo utilizan.
“Se Habla Español,” is written by a Latin author, Tanya Barrientos; and Amy Tan, a Chinese author, wrote “Mother Tongue”. In both literate narratives the authors write about their experiences with language and how it impacted their lives. In This essay we will be discussing the similarities as well as the differences in the stories and the authors of “Se Habla Español” and “Mother Tongue”. We will discuss how both authors use a play on words in their titles, how language has impacted their lives, how struggling with language has made them feel emotionally, and how both authors dealt with these issues.
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She discusses about a historical text that “has a few points in common with baseball cards” (318), in which it was published by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. The manuscript contains a mixture of Quechua and Spanish, and is addressed to King Philip III of Spain. Guaman Poma’s letter is split into two parts: the first of which is called Nueva coronica, “New Chronicle,” and serves as “the main writing apparatus through which the Spanish presented their American conquests to themselves” (319). This first half of the text introduces one distinctive phenomenon of the contact zone: the autoethnographic text, in which it involves collaborations with people from different social and intellectual backgrounds “to create self-representations intended to intervene in metropolitan modes of understanding” (320). “New Chronicle” rewrites the Christian history and the Spanish conquest to paint a new picture of the world, where the Andean people lie in the center, not the Europeans. At the end of the first half, Guaman Poma argues that there should have been a peaceful encounter between the Spanish and the Inca, thereby forming a potential for benefiting both parties, not just one. Finishing explaining Guaman Poma’s letter, Pratt quickly connects his letter to the contact zone, making an argument that the art of the contact zone illustrates a picture of the oppressors, the Europeans, from the oppressed, the Andeans’,
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