Belize isn't like the rest of Central America. Belize speaks English. But that's not the full story...
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Special Guests: Osmer Balam - Northern Belizean Spanish and Timothy McKeon - Creole Specialist.
Links:
- Guatemalan Passport - this interesting website has images of all the passport covers in the world. You can see the jaggy line I mention between Guatemala and Belize on this one.
- Guatemala Passport Map an Affront to Belizeans - Amandala
- Q'eqchi' - Wikipedia
- Mopan - Wikipedia
- CIA Factbook - A useful list of country sizes. I used this for the size comparisons mentioned in the podcast.
- Belize Language Stats - Official stats from the Belizean Government.
- National Kriol Council - the useful website of the National Kriol Council has some great references both for the language and culture.
- National Garifuna Council - a language we didn't get into in this episode. The website has some useful info on the Garifuna language and culture that spreads beyond Belize to Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua also.
- A Spanish Accent, The Economist - an interesting article on the impact of immigration on the languages in Belize.
