This article is a first approach for creating a dialectal vocabulary from the Colombian Caribbean Coast. The cities of Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Monteria were visited in order to obtain a representative corpus through the use of surveys and conversations recorder informally to explain the great variety of vocabulary in this region. It was taken into account that the verbal context should allow the detection of meaning of the world and its application in it as well as the semantic aspects and the grammatical properties. Next, the part that corresponds to the particularities of the use by the people in this region of the country was developed by giving examples to allow the contextualization of each recording or lemma. In this work there are fifty –two recordings and one-hundred and seven meanings.

En la actualidad, la investigación social tiene otros caminos que se han consolidado gracias a métodos como la etnografía. Ésta abarca varios campos de las ciencias humanas. Dentro del espectro de consolidación de la etnografía está la lingüística. Este artículo pretende mostrar el enfoque etnográfico en los estudios de la antropología lingüística.