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Social classes in communication and in the configuration of ethnicities: An omission in the Analysis of Indo-American Reality

ABSTRACT:

Sociolinguistics in Latin America is a science that deals with the sociocultural claims of the Indo-Americans, which imply social inequality in communicative languages and cultures. In this work, a panorama is drawn about inequality and stratification in the functionality of indigenous historical languages, making a distinction between experiences or political discussions on indigenous populations, in the form of external hi tory, and the scientific constitution of social inequality in language as an object of linguistics.

Keywords:
Social classes inequality; Language and communication; Ethnicity; Sociolinguistics

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