El español de Canarias en el siglo XIXEl habla de los costeros
ISSN: 0212-4130
Year of publication: 2007
Issue Title: Homenaje a Antonio Lorenzo
Issue: 25
Pages: 129-142
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna
Abstract
From the 16th to the 18th century, the details and particulars on the Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands are just a few, exclusively devoted to the vocabulary, and are to be found scattered in historical, ethnographic and scientific sources. But in the 19th century there is a remarkable increase in the linguistic information. It is then when the Spanish of the Canaries turns to be a field of study and the first vocabulary lists are composed. To this we have to add, among others, those works in which the writers reproduce the language of the lower social classes. This can be seen in a text published by J.D. Dugour in 1848, which is about the language of the costeros, that is to say, the Canary fishermen on the African coast.