O português indígena sateré-mawé: um projeto de pesquisa sociolinguística.

The paper presents a propose of a sociolinguistic research about Indigenous Portuguese Sateré-Mawé, located on Parintins, Amazonas State, as well as its first empirical findings, with the identification of morphosyntactic traces of that linguistic variety which are supposedly derived from language contact. The research is based on a sample of vernacular speech collected, according to the field research techniques of Variationist Sociolinguistics, in indigenous communities, with 16 bilingual speakers in Sateré-Mawé and Portuguese. The paper also makes a socioeconomic, demographic and ethnographic description of Sateré- Mawé people and discusses the Indigenous Portuguese concept, as well as the implication of this study for understanding the country´s ethnographic diversity and for Portuguese Language teaching in indigenous communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]