The nature of the miskitu language and the main difficulties in learning It

Abstract

The classification of a language can be understood in two different senses.  One can be “genetic” classification: the origin of the language and the other languages with which it shares that origin.  Another sense can be “typological” classification: the type of language it is, and the other languages of the world it resembles.  These two senses are distinct.  Two languages may be genetically related. For example, Spanish and Hinda have many features in common.  On the other hand, we can against languages of the same type, which have the same basic characteristics, but are genetically unrelated. An example of this would be the typological similarities between the Mayan languages of Guatemala and Maxi con and the Berber languages of North Africa. In this article we are going to give the classification of the Miskito in the genetic and typological senses.  In addition to describing the typological characteristics of Miskitu, we will point out some of the main difficulties that a Spanish-speaking adult would have in learning Miskitu as a second language.