The dialect of São João da Chapada
Possible remains of a mining language in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4179314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Álvarez López (0000-0002-4223-6084, Stockholm University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 2019 |
| Issue | 258 |
| Pages | 143-170 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl-2019-2032 |
| OpenAlex | W2966644456 |
| Language | PT |
| References cited | 4 |
This article focuses on the analysis of a specific vocabulary, possibly the remains of a mining language spoken by descendants of Africans. It analyzes 149 lexical items that were registered in the 1920s in a rural region of Minas Gerais, near the city of Diamantina. Based on earlier historical and linguistic studies, as well as on dictionaries of relevant African languages, the lexical study aims to analyze 149 words and expressions in order to verify the etymologies, and determine whether they fit the demographic data available on the origins of the slave population in this area. The second aim is to analyze the distribution of the lexical items in different semantic domains and word classes and compare the observed tendencies, as well as other linguistic characteristics and social functions, with other mining languages and/or similar Afro-Brazilian and Afro-European varieties. The results indicate that Umbundu maintained a high status in the area, and that this variety was not limited to mining activities, but was probably used in everyday life as a secret code that was part of the strategies of resistance among slaves
Everyday life · Geography · Linguistics · Political science · Population · Sociology · Vocabulary · Computer Science · Demography · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Artificial Intelligence
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |