Variedades linguísticas e usos sociais da comunidade de fala dos “Holandeses” de Carambeí/PR

Abstract

Carambei, a small town in Paraná, is Brazil’s first Dutch settlement, founded in 1911. Considering that Carambei Township is fairly complex, both cultural and linguistically, this study intends to do a survey of the functional use of Portuguese and Dutch languages. As far as the first question is concerned, we concluded that Groups 1M and IF prefer Dutch; Groups 2M and 2F are bilingual in Portuguese and Dutch; Groups 3M and 3F are monolingual in Portuguese