Obsolescência linguística em Xerente Akwén: diglossia, empréstimo e codeswitching
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2012-09-24
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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Diglossia, borrowing and codeswitching are considered to be one of the major
threats to indigenous languages when in contact to non indigenous and presti gious languages, generally the official language of a country. Although some times invisible to their speakers, borrowings and codeswitchings pervade the
indigenous language to a point that it is almost impossible to distinguish which
of them is the basic language. This article deals such subjects with the Xerente
Akwén, a highly bilingual people. The Xerente Akwén is an indigenous lan guage of the Jê family, spoken by 3,600 individuals of the same name in the state of Tocantins, Brazil. The data were collected at the local during the year
of 2010 through observations, face to face interviews and questionnaires. The
questionnaires were measured by using a statistical design. The results show
that there is a massive number of borrowings and codeswitchings made mainly
by the youngest individuals causing a situation of diglossia. Obsolescence of
the language remains as an open question to be answered.
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Línguas em contato, Língua Xerente Akwén, Empréstimos linguísticos, Codeswitching, Diglossia, Linguistic contact, Xerente Akwén, Borrowing, Codeswitching, Diglossia
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MESQUITA, Rodrigo; BRAGGIO, Sílvia Lucia Bigonjal. Obsolescência linguística em Xerente Akwén: diglossia, empréstimo e codeswitching. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 24, n. 2, p. 493-518, jul./dez. 2012. DOI: 10.5216/sig.v24i2.14024. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/14024/13277. Acesso em: 22 ago. 2023.