Verbos miskitos

Authors

  • Danilo Salamanca Centro de Investigación y Documentación de la Costa Atlántica

Keywords:

Ethnic group, Grammar, Language, Lexicography, Miskito

Abstract

Of the different indigenous languages of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, Miskito has undoubtedly been the most studied; this is due, naturally, to the fact that the Miskito-speaking population is the most numerous among the indigenous groups. There are about 70-75 thousand Miskitos in Nicaragua and about 20-25 thousand in Honduras (these are approximate figures, because reliable demographic data are not yet available). Since the beginning of the last decade, CIDCA has promoted research on the grammar of this language, in part by linking it to the implementation of bilingual education. In the 1980s, a grammar of Miskito (CIDCA, 1985) and an elementary dictionary of the language (CIDCA, 1986) were published, as well as several collections of traditional stories and magazine articles.

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Author Biography

Danilo Salamanca, Centro de Investigación y Documentación de la Costa Atlántica

Danilo Salamanca: Managua, 1951. D. in Linguistics from the Massachu setts Institute of Technology, United States. He joined CIDCA in 1982, has been in charge of the area of linguistic studies, and is currently Director of this institution. He has published several scientific works; he is co-author of the Miskito Grammar published by CIDCA in 1985.

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Published

1989-01-01

How to Cite

Salamanca, D. (1989). Verbos miskitos. Wani, (13), 53–64. Retrieved from https://camjol.info/index.php/WANI/article/view/19469

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