O tupi-antigo (Tupinambá) como língua etno-identitária do povo Tupinikim: análise da produção escrita em tupi-antigo elaborada na escola indígena Caieiras Velha - Aracruz - ES

Abstract

The Old Tupi (Tupinamba / Tupi) was elected by the Tupinikim people their ethno identity language. Linguistic and historical studies point to the fact that Tupinikim is a people who spoke a language of the TG family very close to or even the same language as the Tupinambá people, this language is described by Anchieta in his famous “Art of Grammar of the Most Talked Language on the Coast of Brazil”,1559. As a type of linguistic policy, the Tupinikim project is considered, as proposed by D’Angelis (2011), a process of “reconstruction of the ancestral language”. One of the results of this linguistic policy was the insertion, since 2008, of Old Tupi as a discipline in the teaching system of the Tupinikim schools, in Espírito Santo. The research work proposed in this dissertation investigates the Tupi of the Tupinikim, fruit of this process of reconstruction of the Old Tupi / Tupi (nambá), which manifests as a result of a teaching and learning process in a school environment. The research focuses, in particular, on the written production in Tupi, of teachers and students, of the Caieiras Velha Municipal School of Indigenous Basic Education. Grammatical aspects of Old Tupi / Tupinambá, absent in Portuguese grammar such as Indicative II and inalienable possession, or that differ from it: relativization via nominalization, construction of the gerund, are investigated in the productions written in Tupi seeking to systematize its occurrence. The analysis points to the fact that Portuguese as Tupinikim L1, is affecting the teaching and learning process of Old Tupi / Tupinambá. Thus, “he reconstruction of Old Tupi / Tupinambá” which materializes in these texts and which we are calling the Tupi of the Tupinikim is a production with satisfactory grammatical influence of the Portuguese.