Descrição da fala masculina e da fala feminina na língua Kadiwéu

Abstract

The objective of this study is to research the difference between female speech and male speech in the language Kadiwéu, which belongs to the Guaikuru linguistic family. According to FUNASA data, in 2009 there were 1.346 kadiwéu, unevenly distributed in five different indian settlements (Alves de Barros, Campina, São João, Barro Preto e Tomázia) in a marked area with 538.000 hectares, in Porto Murtinho, region of Serra da Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil. The study was realized with collaborators taking into account gender, age and the hierarchy of the group (nobles and captives). The interviews were made in Alves de Barros village, which is also known as the biggest village. The different speech between men and women is inherent in the process of communication and social interaction, is recurrent of the language in use, and inserted in a cultural learning process. The purpose of the research is to survey the largest possible amount of words that show difference between men and women language and to identify in which linguistic levels such differences can occur. The results show that kadiwéu men and women speak and write words differently, sometimes with phonetic and phonological variations, sometimes presenting lexical variation.