Território e línguas indígenas em São Gabriel da Cachoeira-AM

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes on the territorialization of indigenous languages in the region of São Gabriel da Cachoeira – AM, once the region has pioneered in the municipality at the co-oficilização of indigenous languages Tukano, Baniwa and Nheengatu in Brazil in 2002, followed by other region that formalize not only indigenous languages as well as migration languages. The municipality is consists of 23 crowd from five language families Eastern Tukano Aruak Yanomami Japurá-Uaupes (Maku) and Tupi (Nheengatu spoken by people Baré, Werekena, and part of the people Baniwa of lower river Içana) that are speakers between 20 at the 23 indigenous languages. The conceptual basis of the research is focused on categories as Territory, Indigenous Language and Culture, Sociolinguistics, Geography and Linguistics. We used the methodological procedures of participatory research with raising basic primary and secondary sources. In this context, the research searched understand the territorialization of indigenous languages at the urban areas of the municipality, by way the identification of the places where languages are used, analyzing its territorialisation in urban place and checking what mechanisms used by people, public sector and civil society organizations for recovery and maintenance and reproduction of the languages, since the language for the indigenous peoples of the High Rio Negro is one of the strongest elements of your culture. To permeate, revitalize and sustain the maintenance of indigenous languages in the municipality is need, fundamentally, to put into practice the law of co-official languages of the indigenous existing in this municipality, recover the prestige at the status of these languages, so that the youngest speakers, public and private to can use them daily, as well as in schools, so to reverse the phenomena of language replacement and linguistics loss that these such indigenous languages come having.