ERIC Number: EJ1390569
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 15
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Cotopaxi Media Lengua Is Still Very Much Alive
Stewart, Jesse; Inlago, Lucia Gonza; Ayala, Gabriela Prado
Language Documentation & Conservation, v17 p49-63 2023
On a 2022 fieldtrip to Ecuador, we encountered a large community of Media Lengua speakers in the province of Cotopaxi where the language was thought to be dormant. This is the same region where Pieter Muysken had first documented this 'mixed language' in the 1970s. However, subsequent fieldwork thereabout by several linguists had failed to turn up the language. This field report provides a brief introduction to Media Lengua, a description of our fieldwork in Cotopaxi, and insights into this variety of Media Lengua.
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Skill Attrition, Geographic Regions, Language Research, Documentation, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Phonology, Contrastive Linguistics
National Foreign Language Resources Center at University of Hawaii. Department of Linguistics, UHM Moore Hall 569, 1890 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822. Fax: 808-956-9166; e-mail: ldc@hawaii.edu; Web site: https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ecuador
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