Talk:Peruvian Ribereño Spanish
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Citations and English
[edit]This article needs to explicity cite its sources, and sections seem to be in unidiomatic English, so I will make minor revisions. Kemet 02:28, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Peruvian Spanish
[edit]There needs to be an article on Peruvian Spanish. This article is on a subcategory of Peruvian Spanish. Gringo300 (talk) 18:31, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
References and other improvements to the article
[edit]I made a number of improvements to this article, with various degrees of success. The article really needs a lot of help, especially from people who know the references used.
- It looks like there's plenty of references in the "Bibliographic Sources" section, but whoever added those failed to use them in the article body itself. That person missed an opportunity to compose an otherwise good article by Wikipedia standards. I wonder if the "citation needed" warnings could all be resolved by pointing to the right references already present in the "Bibliographic Sources" section, thereby rendering the "Nofootnotes" warning obsolete. I was able to resolve only one of these reference issues, and only because there was only one explicit markup reference already used, but improperly formed.
- The way it was written, the mention of large Japanese and Chinese populations contributing many words to Peruvian Coast Spanish makes the reader think that the language contains a lot of Chinese and Japanese words. Only some Cantonese words are used. No Japanese words are used in everyday communication, unless specifically speaking of things Japanese (karate, kimono, sayonara.) Hence, I removed the reference to Japanese words, but left the Chinese to indicate that there is at least some Chinese influence.
- The article also gave the reader the impression that much of the slang in Peruvian Coast Spanish is a Spanish form of Pig Latin, when it isn't. While that form is popular, it does not constitute a major portion of how slang is spoken. Thus I've softened the presentation to indicate that while this form of Spanish Pig Latin does exist, it is not as prevalent as originally implied.