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VAZQUEZ ALVAREZ, Juan Jesús. The sociolinguistic situation of Frontera Corozal, Ocosingo, Chiapas. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2019, vol.14, e423.  Epub 07-Ago-2020. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2019.v14.423.

This article presents the sociolinguistic situation of Frontera Corozal, a Chol town founded due to migrations from several municipalities of Chiapas during the second half of the last century. The Chol people in Frontera Corozal have extensive contact with socially dominant foreign languages such as English and Spanish, due to the town’s proximity to the archeological sites of Yaxchilan and Bonampak. They also maintain close ties with speakers of other indigenous languages such as Tseltal and Lacandon. In spite of the multilingual situation and the value placed on acquiring full mastery of Spanish, this study demonstrates that most children in the community are still acquiring Chol as a first or second language. Data from child and adult conversations show evidence of neutralization of the dialectal variation that distinguishes the two varieties of Chol (Tila Chol and Tumbala Chol) spoken by the original colonizers of Frontera Corozal.

Palabras llave : Chol people; migration; language variation; linguistic attitude; intergenerational transmission.

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