Los indigenismos léxicos en el español de Campeche: primeras aproximaciones a su estudio diacrónico (siglos XVI-XIX)

Abstract

The history of Campeche Spanish today represents a subject that has been little studied in general (Lipski, 1996; San Martín Gómez, 2023). Among these gaps is the issue of the lexical indigenisms that have been incorporated into the language from a diachronic point of view. Precisely for this reason, the present research aims to study the lexical influence of indigenous languages in the state of Campeche between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. For this purpose, 178 documents written in this region edited by Ramírez Quintana (2016) will be studied. Their lexical units will be extracted to analyse the following questions: (a) languages they come from; (b) lexical fields in which they are used; (c) compare, as far as possible, their possible similarities with other neighbouring areas (Ramírez Luengo, 2019a, 2019b) (d) first dating of them. Finally, the goal of this research is to contribute to the lexical history of Campeche Spanish and to learn more about how indigenous languages influence this variety, all of which will in turn contribute to a better knowledge of the history of the Spanish language in the Peninsula of Yucatan and Mexico.