INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES IN THE CONTEMPORARY TIMES

In this article we address the issue of indigenous languages today. The 1988 Federal Constitution instituted a new paradigm in relation to indigenous peoples and their languages. The situation of coloniality that still persists has not prevented different peoples from promoting actions that value th...

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Autor: Dias de Paula, Eunice
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Recursos:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás (PUC-GO)
Repositorio:Habitus
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.seer.pucgoias.edu.br:article/13634
Acesso em linha:https://seer.pucgoias.edu.br/index.php/habitus/article/view/13634
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Povos indígenas.
Línguas Indígenas
Cosmologias
Epistemologias
Pueblos indígenas
Lenguas indigenas
Cosmología
Epistemología.
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous languages
Cosmology
Epistemology.
Descrição
Resumo:In this article we address the issue of indigenous languages today. The 1988 Federal Constitution instituted a new paradigm in relation to indigenous peoples and their languages. The situation of coloniality that still persists has not prevented different peoples from promoting actions that value the original languages. Ethnosyntax (ENFIELD, 2002) supports reflection on the importance of indigenous languages, which codify the values and rules that organize different societies. For indigenous peoples, they constitute a valuable index of ethnic identity and the essential means that condenses cosmology and epistemology, which allows non-indigenous researchers an inexhaustible source of anthropological, ecological, historical, linguistic knowledge, among others. This knowledge can even save humanity, which is currently facing a socio-environmental catastrophe.