Spanish as a Foreign Language in Ivory Coast: overflowing the school and university environmentAbstract
More than half a century after its establishment in 1940, when the French colonizer moved his school system to his colonies, the Spanish is so implanted now in Ivory Coast that it occasionally overflows with the education area to splash the local vehicular language. However, contact between geographically and culturally distant languages can also be explained, to a lesser extent as far as Spanish is concerned, by the rise of the media and information technology. Language contact is by nature a creative field. This study analyses loans of the Spanish to the nouchi of Ivory Coast. They are at least thirty hispanisms used some more often than others are by young students who have studied Spanish or have been indirectly exposed to it in their various relationships.
Key Words: Language contact; loans; Spanish; hispanisms; nouchi