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  • Associate Professor, Departments of Romance Languages & Literatures and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Afrikaner descendants representing Argentina, South Africa today and the country’s old flag. Richard Finn Gregory / GOODWORK

Language and identity: lessons from a unique Afrikaans community in Patagonia

Ryan Szpiech, University of Michigan; Andries W. Coetzee, University of Michigan; Lorenzo García-Amaya, University of Michigan; Nicholas Henriksen, University of Michigan; Paulina L. Alberto, University of Michigan; Victoria Langland, University of Michigan, and Joshua Shapero, William & Mary

A small community of Afrikaners has been living in Argentina since the early 1900s. Linguistic research has found they’re like a time capsule, reflecting pronunciation and syntax from an earlier era.

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