Mixtec vitality and transmission in two urban neighborhoods of Ensenada, Baja California
Abstract
From Sociolinguistics, we observe the vitality of the Mixtec language in two urban colonies of predominantly Mixtec migrants, from the state of Oaxaca, who have arrived to the city of Ensenada, México. Based on the theory of pressure ecology (Terborg and García, 2011a, 2011b) and applying the sociolinguistic questionnaire proposed by these authors, we obtained the maximum-shared facility, a determining concept for the analysis of the vitalism of the language.
The application of this instrument in 226 speakers, showed that the Mixtec has high levels of use among the members of the community, surpassing Spanish in some variables, so in this place, the use of the language will have better conditions for maintenance in the following years. However, some signs indicate that younger subjects are leaving their mother tongue in favor of Spanish, as we will see in the analysis.
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