Considerations preliminary phonetic-phonological ’Language-of-saint’ and ’Language-of-the-holy people’ in Yards of Candomblé Rio Branco - AC

Abstract

This article aims to give a description of preliminary phonetic-phonological 'tongue-in-holy' and 'tongue-in-us-de-santo' (Pessoa de Castro, 1968a and 1968b, 1977, 1980, 1983) spoken in a yard of candomblé in the city of Rio Branco - AC. Initially, he was made a general survey of the main headphones worn by followers of Candomblé in three songs offered to the orisha EXU and lexical items used in everyday situations by supporters of the yard. Subsequently the survey of headphones, we analyzed the occurrence of these pairs of headphones, particularly the phonetically similar to check the status phonemic, based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions of structuralist phonemic (PIKE, 1947).  From the analysis of phonetic-phonological general, it was found that the 'tongue-in-holy' and 'tongue-in-saint-people' have the repertoire phonetic and phonemic characteristics similar to Brazilian Portuguese analyzed by Mattoso Jr .  (2008) and Cristófaro-Silva (2007).