Variation in a secret creole language of Panama

Michael Aceto

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Linguistic Variation and Morphology Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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ABSTRACT This article describes a secret language called “Gypsy” spoken in an English-derived creole speech community on the Caribbean island of Bastimentos in Panama. Data from this cryptolect are used as a means to examine language variation on the island. This article highlights the fact that a range of English-derived creole varieties exists in Bastimentos, lacking the effects of a lexically related metropolitan variety in the same geographical area. (Creole, cryptolect, Panama, secret language, speech play, variation)

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