VOZES DO POVO TUKANO EM PERSPECTIVA: reflexões sobre resistência, silenciamento e deslocamento da língua tukano em São Gabriel da Cachoeira - AM

Abstract

The work aims to analyze the sociolinguistic context of São Gabriel da Cachoeira in order to find answers about the main factors that influence the linguistic shift from the Tukano language to the Portuguese language among the indigenous people of the Tukano people in an urban context. For that, studies by Baniwa (2007, 2013), De Paula (2016), Foirn (2019), Gonzaga (2021), Graúna (2009), Smith (2018), Sagica (2021), Krenak (2019), Xacriabá (2019) among others. The work follows a qualitative approach of an applied nature. To achieve the objectives that the work proposes, bibliographic and documentary research was used, in this sense, a field research was carried out in which five indigenous people of the Tukano people, residents of São Gabriel, were interviewed to share their views on the subject. In the analysis of the data, it was found that factors related to geographic and family distance, self-esteem and racism, influence the weakening of indigenous belonging, thus providing the maintenance of coloniality logics, especially among indigenous people in an urban context, due to immersion in a non-indigenous way of life. It was concluded that such factors, including glottocide, demotivate the learning of the indigenous Tukano language and work together for the linguistic displacement to occur.