The African slave trade, beginning in the fifteenth century,
brought African languages into contact with Spanish and Portuguese,
resulting in the Africans' gradual acquisition of these languages.
In this 2004 book, John Lipski describes the major forms of
Afro-Hispanic language found in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin
America over the last 500 years. As well as discussing
pronunciation, morphology and syntax, he separates legitimate forms
of Afro-Hispanic expression from those that result from racist
stereotyping, to assess how contact with the African diaspora has
had a permanent impact on contemporary Spanish. A principal issue
is the possibility that Spanish, in contact with speakers of
African languages, may have creolized and restructured - in the
Caribbean and perhaps elsewhere - permanently affecting regional
and social varieties of Spanish today. The book is accompanied by
the largest known anthology of primary Afro-Hispanic texts from
Iberia, Latin America, and former Afro-Hispanic contacts in Africa
and Asia.
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