El léxico popular nicaragüense en el sector de los mercados de Managua

Abstract

In this article, the Nicaraguan popular lexicon used in the Managua market sector is presented.  It was made in the year 2000, but many of these findings are still valid. The objective is to present the current vocabulary of that semantic field, based on the use of the voices used in them as forms of communication. It is
a field study, in which ten markets of Managua, two of Carazo and one of Masaya were selected. Six hundred twenty-one (621) interviews were collected in thirteen (13) product sales sections, such as groceries, footwear,butcher shop, grocery store, refreshment, etc.  A selection of the lexies was made by sections
and each term was searched in eleven dictionaries and other texts, in order to verify their existence and meaning, if they did not appear in them, the words were defined. As a result of the study, the phonological and syntactic behavior of some sentence units was determined, the lexical-semantic wealth of Nicaraguan popular speech was verified, and a list of Americanisms common to Nicaragua was provided.