Lenguas en contacto: análisis sociolingüístico de las formas lingüísticas mestizas shuar-español en la comunidad Chupiankas

Abstract

The present work is a sociolinguistic analysis of the Languages in Contact: Shuar - Spanish within the Chupiankas Community. The members of this community are bilingual Shuar Indians, who are in permanent contact with the mestizo culture and their language. So that, the results of the research warn that the Shuar language has lost "linguistic vitality" with respect to Spanish, which has gained breadth of preference and frequency of use within the community. Multiple social factors such as the monolingual educational system, the geographic location of the place, the media, among others, directly affect this Bilingual process. Which has motivated us to analyze and describe the linguistic situation of the Chupiankas Community, from the study of the Bilingualism and Diglossia phenomena from the sociolinguistic perspective. The research is based on a fieldwork where observation, survey and interview techniques were applied, which allowed us to obtain the necessary information and data.

In multiple communication scenarios, the Shuar has been constituted as a dominated or weak system, while the Spanish, is the preferred system in the communication of the commoners of place.