Ethnic loyalty and phonetic change in Cajamarcan Quechua
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https://doi.org/10.15381/lengsoc.v9i1.26515Keywords:
Cajamarca Quechua, sonorization, deaf obstruents, change in progress, borrowing, ethnic loyaltyAbstract
This paper attempts to elucidate the problem of the retention of non-continuous sordic obstruents preceded by the homorganic nasal in borrowings from native voices in regional Spanish or in borrowings from Spanish in the Cajamarcan variety of Quechua. The interesting thing is that the terms involved in the phenomenon seem to have come into contact with Quechua in early times and that they are also of high frequency in use. However, they are not affected by the generalized process of sonorization in this variety.
This paper suggests as a plausible explanation that such terms occupy a special status since Quechua speakers differentiate between Quechua voices and those used by the dominant group. As a consequence, Americanisms and Hispanisms are not treated like native words. This fact is a reflection of the attitudes of strong attachment and loyalty to the native culture on the part of the Quechua speakers of Cajamarca.
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