Bilingüismo y realidad sociolingüística de la lengua del grupo Wayuu en el Caribe Colombiano

Abstract

The study of the wayuunaiki speaking community, Arawak language family, seated territorially in La Guajira Colombia-Venezuela is our main purpose in research analysis presented here, is a study in two phases, aims to highlight characteristics of the situation of language contact, Spanish/wuayunaiki and other languages they know and use, to some extent, the Wayuu communities settled in La Guajira, Colombia. Our goal in this paper is to account for the characterization of an indigenous community as the one in question, their territorial location, the sociolinguistic characteristics of the community, the language contact situation in which survives in a permanent context of multilingualism and multi-culturalism and the study of consciousness and attitudes of this community sociolinguistic.