23 interviews and counting

After these later interviews a new pattern is starting to take shape and some of the other information that I got earlier is making even more sense now. As a preliminary observation I would say that the population of speakers is not as homogenous as I thought earlier and there seems to exist a correlation between socio-economical factors and degree of language syncretism, i.e. the influence of Spanish - basically the way you speak Tol as well as Spanish tells a lot about how much power you have, both in terms of pure economics but indeed to a large extent prestige. These are preliminary observations which, if valid for the population at large, have implications for the future of this language only some of which may be possible to predict.
The grand total of interviews is going to be 30, the final 7 of which will be with speakers from outside of San Juan, the main community.