Colonial settlers in Central and South America brought Spanish and Portuguese with them. Existing Indian languages were eradicated. Yet, the cultural melange that resulted has given the world writers like Garcia Marquez.
中南美洲的殖民者帶進西班牙、葡萄牙文，舊有的印第安語文因此被消滅，但是外來語「本土化」之後，拉丁美洲作家「被迫」以這些「外來語」來呈現中南美時空下的人文精神，這種融合多文化的大架構，也造就了馬奎斯等世界級作家。