Datos sobre la historia del español en Centroaméricael nivel fónico en la Guatemala del siglo XVIII

Resumen

Since diachronic studies of Guatemalan Spanish are scarce, this paper intends to add on the historic understanding of 17th and 18th centuries in such a variety of Spanish, through the study of its phonic set-up. A corpus of inquisitorial documents (Ramírez Luengo 2017) shall be analyzed, as well as every phonetic and phonological phenomena mirrored in a corpus of inquisitorial documents (Ramírez Luengo 2017) shall be analyzed, by assessing the value of trend-breaking spelling at the time. This research is meant to provide not only a coherent description of such phenomena in relation to present day situation in Guatemala (Lipski 2000; Utgård 2010), but also an appropriate interpretation under the principles of historical dialectology. The end goal is to determine the existence of a phonic set-up in that century that would be analogue to present day’s setting, and thus confirm the dialectalization on this linguistic level in this period.