Proposta de um vocabulário bilíngue Krahô-Português do campo lexical fauna

Abstract

This work is the result of our research in the Masters program in teaching language and literature at the Federal University of Tocantins and presents the construction proposal of a Krahô indigenous language vocabulary. It has the native language as L1 and L2 as the Portuguese one. The goal of our work was contributing to the use of the dictionary as an instrument for the preservation of the language under a lexicographical, intercultural and bilingual perspective from the sociolinguistic reality of the Krahô people, the uses and functions of language in the various spheres of native community, as well as, its grammatical structure, considering also the contribution to the maintenance of the Krahô mother tongue in communities of this people. Thus, it was made a documentary and bibliographical survey that described the internal and external aspects of the Krahô language. We looked into the Krahô knowledge with respect to two languages, Krahô and Portuguese languages, as well as the linguistic domain and the uses and functions of languages in accordance with the social domains. This is a documentary research and we use content analysis and reference observation. The analysis was done on the research of documents prepared by LALI. Therefore, it also counts on the participation and review of the Krahô indigenous teachers. The bibliographic survey of this work was developed and based on research by Bravo (1981), Bardin (2009) and Francis (2002). To our theoretical foundation, we used, among others, the authors who work with Sociolinguistics, as Labov (1968), Bragio (1997) and Rodrigues (1986), with Indian school education, Albuquerque (2011, 2012, 2016), Grupioni (2001), Santos (2003) and Abreu (2006), and with lexicography, we worked with such authors as Zavaglia (2012), Welker (2004), Isquerdo and Finnato (2010), among others. The results of our research indicate that the Krahô society, even in the face of the situation of linguistic and intercultural conflict in which they find themselves, try to resist the cultural and linguistic influences and that keeps their language, cultural activities and their traditional knowledge. It is hoped that this work can contribute as a resource for the maintenance of the native language and the Krahô indigenous culture of the state of Tocantins.