Abstract

SILVA, Pedro Marín. SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND ETHNOHISTORY IN THE COLOMBIAN ORINOQUIA REGION FROM THE 17^TH TO THE 19^TH CENTURIES. Forma funcion, Santaf, de Bogot, D.C. [online]. 2020, vol.33, n.2, pp.13-40. ISSN 0120-338X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/fyf.v33n2.79797.

The article explores some aspects of the incorporation process of Llanero ethnic groups and their territories into the Neogranadine society from the 17th to the 19th centuries. From the first contacts, one underscores information provided by archives and secondary sources about the location of groups, nations, and indigenous peoples. These groups of local offspring maintained connections with other peoples of the lowlands and the Andean region before the Spanish conquest. The contacts originated from economic and cultural reasons according to the reviewed documents, which help to construct an updated linguistic overview and to determine scatter plots of linguistic families precisely in the northeast of South America. The forms of trade exchange and alliances between groups from different linguistic affiliation (especially Arawak and Carib) help to understand this multilingual and multiethnic area extending from the Orinoco River to the Andes.

Keywords : Colonial times; language contact; Orinoquia ethnic peoples; linguicide; reductions; Llanero colonial sociolinguistics; Jesuit missionary topohistory.

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