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I know I'm asking for nuance on the no-nuance website, but almost 530 years after the first incidence of Spanish being spoken on the Hemisphere, I think we could evaluate how Spanish has become indigenized and the various Spanish-es spoken and by whom they're spoken https://twitter.com/KentingtonClark/status/1349443543513915393
I understand what people say when they refer to Spanish as a Colonial language, but could you make that argument about Quechua, Nahua and Mapuche? Which are some of the few (only?) indigenous languages to *expand* territory in the colonial period in some cases supplanting others
Accounts of the colonial period regarding the adoption of Spanish and things, like Christianity, show various relationships among different indigenous peoples and within them between different social strata. A lot of those relationships remain in the post independence period tbh
Western hemispheric Spanish is complex, and I think reducing it to a white, European language when the vast majority of its speakers in the world are neither white nor from Europe requires some pondering at the risk of reproducing certain colonial tropes idk
