Estudio sociolingüístico de la vitalidad del kichwa en la comunidad cordillera los Andes, parroquia Cangahua, cantón Cayambe, Pichincha

Abstract

The Kichwa language is part of the identity mark of the various peoples that make up Ecuador. Despite this, today, it can be seen that in sectors where the language was robust before, it has now declined. Kichwa has given ground to the Spanish language. In this context, a systematic investigation is required at the national level on the real situation regarding the validity of the Kichwa at the national level. For now, as a contribution to this study, this paper presents a sociolinguistic research carried out in the Cordillera de los Andes Community, in the Cayambe canton of the Pichincha province. To determine the vitality of this language, a diagnosis was made through field work with observation and interviews with the residents of the community. The results of the field work allow us to affirm that in this community there is a wide appreciation of the language and that the community is willing to generate strategies that allow its preservation given its value in family and community life and its relationship with identity. indigenous collective. The importance of this work lies in proposing a research methodology on the vitality of Kichwa, which, if carried out at the national level, will serve to formulate public policies to rescue the language