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This paper examines the implications and implementation of official language policy designed to support endangered Indigenous languages in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil. The policy, in place since late 2001, declared three of the region’s many Indigenous languages (Nheengatú, Tukano, and Baniwa) to be “co-official” at the local level; the practical implementation of...
In the Upper Rio Negro region of the Northwest Amazon of Brazil, although language plays a vital role in determining and understanding identity, the 21 Indigenous languages spoken there can all be considered endangered. Power dynamics among speakers of the various Indigenous languages complicate the political debate about what it means to be Indigenous. Questions of authenticity and the importance...
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