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Traditionally, interest in endangered languages has been primarily focused on the description and documentation of the linguistic particularities of these languages. The methodologies and theories proper to descriptive and documentary linguistics have held the near monopoly in the study of endangered languages until recently, when the mediatized figure of the “ last speaker” attracts more and more attention from researchers and the general public alike. The response of linguists to this growing interest has favored the development of increasingly complex typologies of speakers of endangered languages, taking into account the very different situations in which they exist. This article will discuss, through the lens of my work on Ayapaneco, a language spoken in Mexico, the typologies of speakers of endangered languages. I will demonstrate that their characteristics raise complex theoretical and methodological questions that could challenge fundamental concepts for linguistics, such as linguistic competence

Linguistic competence · Linguistics · Sociology · Vernacular · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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  Open Access•Massimo De Giuseppe•Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos•2018

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