ATENCIO MEJIA, Betty Marlene. Dialectology Wayuunaiki lexical / guajiro: Proposal dictionary.

University of Zulia, Faculty of Humanities and Education, MA in linguistics and language teaching, Maracaibo, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 2011

ABSTRACT The main objective of this paper is to describe the main differences of the existing dialects Wayuunaiki, mother tongue of the Wayuu, located in Colombia and Venezuela. As with many languages, dialects Wayuunaiki exhibits. Residents in the northern dialect used arribero, while the southern and central abajero dialect used both in the department of La Guajira from the Republic of Colombia and the northern municipalities of Zulia state in the Republic of Venezuela. To describe dialect differences exist in the language, was used to develop a corpus format database with lexical items that differ in the dialect and the dialect arribero and abajero of Wayuunaiki. Then they classified the apparent differences in the corpus to determine whether they were phonological, morphological or lexical. We also analyzed the phonological dialect differences as phonological processes presented. Thus, a dictionary was structured bi-dialectal equivalents in bilingual form, which constitutes the first in Wayuunaiki dialect dictionary, which will be useful both for the Wayuu indigenous to Spanish-speaking population. Thus, Wayuunaiki-speaking people can be aware of dialectical processes in its territory and be more efficient communication between different areas Wayuu dialect. To obtain data, written and oral sources used in the dialect abajero, which were contrasted with linguistic intuitions of the author, speaker of the dialect arribero. To handle these data, we used the Toolbox language software in developing and managing a database consisting of 333 lexical records, each with 5 fields, which allowed the classification of the apparent differences in the corpus and the determination of phonological or lexical features. Morphological difference was excluded prefixing existing staff, as this is very productive and predictable.