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• Bilingual education programmes involving minority languages,
although experimentally, in Brazil, Portugal, Timor and Mozambique;
• Corpus Development actions in Cape Verde, East Timor, Angola,
Sao Tome and Principe, Mozambique and Brazil;
• Inclusion Actions of minority languages in Internet instruments in
Cape Verde, Brazil and East Timor.
The very initial degree of preparation of corpus of the CPLP languages
(scripturalization, standardization and regulation), as well as the incipient
literacy of speakers in their own mother tongue, given the exclusion of these
languages in most education systems, have been an impediment to further
their presence in cyberspace. However, it is expected that soon changes will be
experienced in this field.
We can cite the example of Nheengatu in the Brazilian Amazon: a language
that until the early twentieth century was spoken in much of the 4 million
square kilometers of this territory, and now is spoken in an area of about
35,000 km ² by no more than 7 000 people. Nevertheless, it was favored by the
legislation emanated from the 1988 Federal Constitution, so it was possible to
iniciate in 1997 the Intercultural Bilingual Schools Programme and a teacher
training programme. It was made official at the municipal level in São Gabriel
da Cachoeira, along with the Tucano and Baniwa, by ordinary law of the
City Council in 2002, in a process unprecedented in Brazil, and the law was
legislated in 2006. It has been a year since the first Indigenous Language Degree,
offered by the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) was established in
the country; this programme selected 40 students of Nheengatu. Currently,
the students are busy in the Cucuí community, Alto Rio Negro, on the border
between Brazil and Venezuela, with the support of IILP, creating a Wikipedia
in their language, virtual encyclopedia that will receive, in the form of entries,
the knowledge researched and produced by them in the course. This path taken
by Nheengatu can be followed soon by many other languages.
I would like to remind you that the official minority languages at the municipal
level in Brazil has already reached the figure of seven languages ​made official
(Nheengatu, Tucano, Baniwa, Pomerano, Talian, Hunsrickisch and Guarani)
in eleven cities (São Gabriel da Cachoeira (AM), Santa Maria Jetibá (ES),
Laranja da Terra (ES), Pancas (ES), Vila Pavão (ES), Domingos Martins
(ES), Antonio Carlos (SC), Serafina Correia (RS), São Lourenço do Sul (RS),
Paranhos (MS) and Tacuru (MS)).
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