Línguas em contato no Oiapoque: as comunidades indígenas karipuna

Abstract

This research is addressed to the analysis of the situation sociolinguistics of five villages in Reservation Uaçá in the municipal district of Oiapoque: Espírito Santo, Taminã, Cutiti. Santa Isabel and Txipidon. In that context two languages are present, which are,Creole languages and language portuguesa. The objective of this work is centered in the recognition of the situation sociolinguistic of that space of languages, such as, verication of the communites‟ maternal language, situation of the bilingual subjects, social uses of the languages and school situation in bilinqual context. The analysis is based in the diglossia conception without stability and of bilingualism as phenomenon no stable, located, with definition of bilingual subject related to the context in that the languages. The school situation is seen tends for base the linguistic plannings of Hamel. The data are analyzed under the optics of the descriptive-interpretative methodology, with quantitative data ainding in the qualitative description of the research. Residents of the five villages and teachers no Indians are part of the corpus of the research. The results confirm the Portuguese language as the most representative in the verbal repertoire of the villages Santa Isabel and Txipidon and the Creole language like maternal language of Espírito Santo, Taminã and Cutiti. Those communities are in conflict diglóssico, with the Portuguese Language occupying space of the Creole language in some linguistic domains. The bilingualism is confirmed presented by the speakers as relative to the context, with differentiated degrees of bilinguality in each village, they are that is the situation that should be considered by the school in their linguistic plannings and not only the communities‟ different maternal languages.