Exploring the linguistic diversity across the whole of the Spanish-speaking world

Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Espanol en el Mundo (ENCODES) provides a comprehensive overview of the linguistic features characterizing the dialectal areas of world Spanishes, including the many varieties spoken in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Broad in topical and geographical scope, this unique reference work also addresses Spanish in contact with other languages, including Catalan, Basque, Galician, Portuguese, English, Indigenous languages, and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino).

Divided into two parts, the Enciclopedia covers phonological variation, as well as grammatical and lexical variation. In-depth chapters discuss a range of linguistic phenomena both quantitatively and qualitatively. More than 100 entries with up-to-date information on regional, social, ethnic, or contact situations, enable readers to perform comparative analyses across dialectal areas and draw from current data for typological studies.

Addresses numerous regional varieties of Spanish, including pronunciation, grammatical differences, and lexical-semantic variation Offer documenting and mapping sociolinguistic variation among communities in vernacular contexts Covers aspects of Spanish typically neglected in the traditional literature, such as varieties spoken in contact with African languages and bilingual areas in contact with Indigenous languages Includes extensive references and footnotes throughout

Enciclopedia Concisa de los Dialectos del Espanol en el Mundois an indispensable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in Spanish, Hispanic linguistics, and Spanish education, as well as related courses in general linguistics, ociolinguistics, and Spanish dialectology, phonetics, and grammar.