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sexes, of different ages and educational levels ranging
from illiteracy to completion of several years of uni-
versity study. Occupations included market seller, certi-
fied school teacher, bus driver, farmer, student (ele-
mentary, secondary, normal school, or university), taxi
driver, housewife, university professor, administrator
of community development programs, and Baptist minister.
All sources 40 and under were bilingual in the sense of
being able to carry on an intelligible conversation in
Spanish, although in some cases their phonology was
heavily Aymara (see 1-1.3).

Below iS a chart showing sex, age, and (for
sources over 40) knowledge of Spanish, the latter
determination based usually on a speaker's self-evaluation.
Ages shown are approximate as age was not obtained for
all sources. An average of six sources was consulted
for each major site, the numbers ranging from one to

13.

0 - 19 20 - 39 40 - 59 60+ Totals

 

+Sp -Sp +Sp_ -Sp

M 3 16 5 1? 25
F 7 13 5 2 1 2 30
55

(The question mark refers to a speaker who was not

heard to speak Spanish and was not asked if he did.)