Hugo Salgado

Hugo Salgado

Position
  • Assistant Professor of Hispanic Linguistics
I am a linguist with broad interdisciplinary interests in Spanish and the Indigenous languages of Mesoamerica. My work spans phonetics and phonology, second-language acquisition, language contact, and language documentation and revitalization. In my latest research, I explore how first-language speakers of Salvadoran Spanish acquire aspects of the phonology of Nawat, the critically endangered Indigenous language of El Salvador that is currently undergoing a revitalization process. I am also developing Ini Tay Tinat 'This Is What We say', a virtual repository of Nawat Indigenous knowledge.

Contact

Email
salga@iastate.edu
Phone
515-294-6476
Pearson
505 Morrill Rd
Ames
,
IA
50011-2103

Education

  • PhD, Hispanic Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 2023

Affiliations

Ini Tay Tinat ‘This Is What We Say’ is my ongoing project to document and preserve the ancestral knowledge of the last Nawat-speaking elders of Santo Domingo de Guzmán (Witzapan). This growing digital repository brings together interviews on history, ethnobotany, traditional arts, stories, and songs—all narrated in Nawat and Spanish.
Click here to learn more and request access to the online repository.

 

Ini Tay Tinat ‘Esto es lo que decimos’ es un proyecto en desarrollo para documentar y preservar el conocimiento ancestral de los abuelos nahuablantes de Santo Domingo de Guzmán (Witzapan). Este repositorio digital en expansión contiene entrevistas sobre historia, etnobotánica, artes tradicionales, cuentos y cantos, todo narrado en náhuat y español.
Haga clic aquí para obtener más información y solicitar acceso al archivo digital.