An investigation of Spanish-Creole languages in Latin America. After a socio-cultural and ethnological survey of the "transculturation" of ethnic groups of African origin, "creole" is defined as a third linguistic stratum between the African languages of slaves in America, and the official European languages. There is only an apparent lack of Spanish Creoles in South America. The black communities established in the old Cimarron settlements still manifest some Spanish Creole. (In Spanish)
Discusses several studies related to pidgin and creole languages of the Caribbean region and provides a background of its origin and development. The developments in the study of pidgins and creoles includes the evolution of studies on its similarities, variability, the clarification of the debate over the origin of the Black English and the idea about it as sociolinguistic.
