Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

In the Vaupés basin of Brazil and Colombia, with conditions of intense language contact, speakers of East Tukano languages actively construct and maintain difference through speech practices. The maintenance of linguistic separations, this article argues, is largely accomplished through the work of ideological mechanisms which attach social identity to speech and essentialize group belonging. Here I look at an array of extra- or meta-linguistic practices associated with language use and identity, gathered between 1980 and 2012 among speakers of Wanano/Kotiria, to postulate the existence of an East Tukano ethnolinguistics — a body of theory about language and language use that renders it intelligible to speakers and drives practice. This body of beliefs underlies speech practices and, I argue, contributes to one of the most extreme examples of language maintenance reported in the literature.

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