Modelo para la determinación de isoglosas y clasificación dialectal a partir de datos del Tomo III del Atlas Lingüístico-Etnográfico de Colombia

Abstract

Dialectology is a branch of linguistics that analyzes the geographical and sociolinguistic variation of languages in space. However, traditionally the spatial component in dialectology is usually limited to the location of data collection without taking into account other geographical aspects that can be measured. In this sense, this document shows the results of the research carried out to determine the existence of a relevant quantitative relationship between linguistic variants and geographic variables, through the design of a spatial model that incorporates lexical data from the Linguistic-Ethnographic Atlas of Colombia (ALEC) , metadata and information of different geographical phenomena. Among the results, the evaluation explained by the spatial autocorrelation index suggested that the variables: agroclimatic fitness, precipitation, geographical distance and access roads show the highest bivariate spatial dependence in relation to the linguistic distance calculated with the Relative Identity Index (IRI), the treatment of this interaction within the mixed geographic autoregressive spatial regression model confirmed this dependence, thus corroborating the relationship between language and geography.