Resumen

RAMIREZ LUENGO, José Luis. Unable hands and History of Latinamerican Spanish: an Example of 18th Century Nicaragua. Anu. let. lingüíst. filol. [online]. 2018, vol.6, n.1, pp.251-276.  Epub 06-Dic-2021. ISSN 2448-8224.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.adel.6.1.2018.1483.

After analysing the main features of texts which are produced by so-called unable hands -that is, writers who have not achieved complete competence in the use of writing, even if they are literate-, I edit one of these documents (a Nicaraguan unorthodox prayer from the first half of 18th. century), and I carry out the study of different phonetic and phonological phenomena which appear on it. This analysis proves that, during the 18th. century, the configuration of this linguistic level in Nicaraguan Spanish is very similar to the one that is usually described today for this regional variety (Lipski, 1996), and this conclusion allows to point out the importance of this type of documents for a correct and complete historical reconstruction of Latin American Spanish.

Palabras llave : history of Latin American Spanish; Nicaragua; 18th. century; unable hands; phonetic-phonological level.

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