Abstract
This study analyzes the variety of Portuguese spoken in Kalunga, an Afro-Brazilian community located in the state of Goiás, Brazil. It investigates the sociohistorical background of this community and the linguistic situation that we encounter in Kalunga today. Based on a corpus of recordings of spoken language, it describes features of the vernacular of the Kalunga community and provides an account of the sociolinguistic and sociohistorical situation of the Kalunga communities. The data show that Kalunga Portuguese shares many linguistic and sociohistorical features with other Afro-Brazilian varieties. These are marginalized varieties socially and linguistically far removed from the so-called Standard Brazilian Portuguese varieties. This study thus contributes to the linguistic and cultural documentation of the Kalunga community of Goiás in particular, and to the studies on Brazilian Portuguese varieties and language contact in general.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Postcolonial Language Varieties in the Americas |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Publication date | 2021 |
| Pages | 207-236 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783110723908 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783110723977 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Afro-Brazilian community
- Afro-Brazilian Portuguese
- Fieldwork
- Grammar
- Kalunga
- Sociolinguistics