Atlas linguístico dos falares do alto rio Negro ALFARiN

Abstract

Registering the dialects of a region is the goal of researches based on linguistic geography. This work is part of that proposal and, therefore, presents the Linguistic Atlas of the dialects of the Upper Rio Negro microregion, belonging to the meso northern Amazonas, comprising the cities of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro and Barcelos. To achieve this aim, the work was carried out considering the principles of multidimensional dialectology and multilingualcontext of the indigenous people of that Amazon area. In each country surveyed, except the town of Barcelos that, having been investigated by Cruz (2004), did not serve as a point of inquiry in this study, the phonetic-phonological Linguistic Atlas of the Amazon (ALAM) questionnaire was applied for six respondents with low education level, until 5th grade of elementary school, bilingual in the native language and Portuguese language, being a man and a woman between 18 and 35, 36 and 55, and 56 onwards. The corpus collected was manually transcribed and reviewed and then inserted in the database of the Mapping Linguistic Variation (MVL) computer program, developed for the ALAM for the elaboration of the phonetic letters. The results, among other characteristics, indicate the closed realization of the anterior and posterior medium vowels in prestressed context, even in environments conducive to raising; for the monophthongization of the diphthongs [ey] and [ow]; to perform the post-vowel -R in the middle of word as glottal fricative, which also presents itself in some situations such as a multiple vibrant, and the palatalization of -S in coda. With the dialects of Portuguese registered in the two cities investigated, we intend to contribute to the understanding of the linguistic reality in Amazonas, emphasizing the pronunciation features of the Upper Rio Negro, an area of multilingualism and, therefore, of intense complexity.