Chinato dialect
| Chinato | |
|---|---|
| Chinato | |
| Native to | Spain |
| Region | Malpartida de Plasencia |
| Extinct | by 1995[1] |
Early forms | Old Latin
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Chinato was a dialect of Extremaduran spoken in Malpartida de Plasencia.[2][3] It is now extinct.[1][4]
Speech research
[edit]The humanist Gonzalo Correas Íñigo was the first to deal with Chinato in his Ortografía kastellana nueva i perfecta and it was not until the 20th century that Diego Catalán, in the Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, studied the most outstanding features of the speech using scientific criteria.[1]
Manuel Ariza Viguera wrote in the 1990s: “While the Serradilla dialect is still alive, the Malpartida de Plasencia dialect lost its vitality in the 1940s and today [that is, before 1995] nobody speaks the dialect, although the oldest residents remember what was said before. [...] We couldn't find any speakers of the old dialect in Malpartida.”[1]
Since 2007, there has been an association called the Asociación de Amigos del Habla Chinata, which published El habla de los chinatos, a book that compiles more than 3000 expressions and vocabulary of the linguistic variety.[5][6]
Linguistic description
[edit]The voiced s evolves into a fricative d: roda (rosa), bedo (beso), lod ihoh (los hijos).[7] It maintains the primitive distinction between the voiceless and voiced pairs -s y -ss-, -ç y z of Old Spanish (they do not distinguish between x and j,g ).[8] It aspirates the final -s, transcribed as j (examples: laj, codaj, amigaj, baylej, mozoj, armodamoj, poj) or at the end of a syllable: uijtej, dijparcila, obijpo... This aspiration of the -s "is common only in some towns in the eastern part of the province of Cáceres: Malpartida, Serradilla, Fresnedoso."[9] Loses the -d-: ruillaj, puean, puemoj...[8] The -r at the end of a word evolves to -l: aprendel, codel (coser), zalil (salir)...[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Redacción (2025-01-09). "Breves notas sobre el dialecto chinato". Revista Grada (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-07-25.
- ↑ Hualde, José Ignacio (1991-01-01). "Aspiration and Resyllabification in Chinato Spanish". Probus. 3 (1): 55–76. doi:10.1515/prbs.1991.3.1.55. ISSN 1613-4079. S2CID 170655964.
- ↑ Ariza, Manuel (2008-09-01). "The sociolinguistics of Spanish in Extremadura". International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2008 (193–194): 109–120. doi:10.1515/IJSL.2008.050. ISSN 1613-3668. S2CID 144384229.
- ↑ Salvador, Antonio; Ariza, Manuel (1992-01-01). Sobre la conservación de sonoras en la provincia de Cáceres (in Spanish). Vol. 108. pp. 276–292. doi:10.1515/zrph.1992.108.3-4.276. ISSN 1865-9063. Retrieved 2026-05-05.
- ↑ Llorente, Emilio (2024-12-19). "Lleno en Malpartida de Plasencia en la presentación de 'El habla de los chinatos'". Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-05.
- ↑ "El habla de los chinatos". calameo.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-05.
- ↑ Lapesa 1959, p. 331.
- 1 2 3 Catalán 1954, p. 5.
- ↑ Macedonio Espinosa 1935, p. 159.
Bibliography
[edit]- Catalán, Diego (1954). Concepto lingüístico del dialecto "chinato" en una chinato-hablante (in Spanish). Biblioteca virtual extrema.
- Lapesa, Rafael (1959). Historia de la Lengua Española (in Spanish).
- Macedonio Espinosa, Aurelio (1935). Arcaísmos dialectales (in Spanish).