A sociolinguistic survey on the Kinikinau language

• Autor(a) principal: Martins, Andérbio Márcio Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Gabriel Barros Viana de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Moara (Online)
• DOI: 10.18542/moara.v1i50.6809
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpa.br/index.php/moara/article/view/6809

This is a sociolinguistic study on the Kinikinau, an Aruák language in the way of extinction spoken by a people also known as Kinikinau, currently located in the south of the Pantanal, state of Mato Grosso do Sul. We seek to describe the level of vitality of the Kinikinaulanguage, the lack of its transmission to younger generations and its symbolic role for the speakers and their traditional territory. We also intend to discuss the chances of this indigenous language revitalization. To achieve such desiderata, we have used collaborative methods, so that Kinikinau thought and logic were actually taken seriously in our survey. Finally, we present a sociolinguistic diagnosis of the Kinikinau language.