We try to show linguistic diversity in the levelling process of the Spanish language in the New World through accounts, briefs, andepistolary information by means of which subject officials gave reports to the Spanish Monarchy on the particular characteristics ofevery place that was discovered. It is a reduced documentary corpus both because of its chronicle textual typology, having its ownpurpose, and because of the geographical area chosen: Charcas and Río de la Plata, but that, in our opinion, reflects a language state thatshows with data the unequivocal regional and social diversity of the language. Even though this lexical probe scarcely registers noveldatings, the information contained in this small corpus makes it possible to trace back the Americanizing process of Spanish in thisregion, with its adaptation to the new environment and its unavoidable indigenist inheritance.
Keywords:
linguistic levelling, linguistic diversity, Hispanoamerican vocabulary, American Spanish
Franco Figueroa, M. (2004). Una cala léxica en las relaciones de Indias (AGI: Charcas y el Río de la Plata. Siglo XVI). Boletín De Filología, 40, Pág. 39–62. Retrieved from https://revistadesociologia.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/18011
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