El zoque ayapaneco, representaciones sociales de los niños indígenas sobre la inminente desaparición de su lengua.

This paper analyzes the social representations of children who are learning the indigenous language in a high degree of disappearance: the Zoque Ayapaneco in the Ayapa ranch, in the Jalpa de Méndez municipality in the state of Tabasco, in southern Mexico. It is a qualitative study with an exploratory descriptive cross-sectional scope. The unit of analysis were children between 5 and 13 years old who participated in the Zoque Ayapaneco language teaching workshop. The data collection techniques used were focus group and semi-structured interview. Children's social representations are that they are under pressure to learn the language because they are the only ones who have the interest and the possibility of doing it with the speakers themselves. They regret that it is not spoken by more people. They will continue to learn it because they don't want it to disappear. The mechanism they have is the workshop. It is suggested to create dissemination strategies so that more children attend, as well as encourage the community and government institutions to strengthen this mechanism.