História linguística do sul da Bahia: levantando hipóteses e iluminando caminhos

Abstract

The following article has as its goal creating the basis for the working up of a Linguistic history of the South of Bahia. In order to do it, it is used as its theoretical references the principles from sociolinguistic theory – concerning to its conception of language – and from creolistics – concerning to changes induced by the contact of languages. The obtained results are presented in a proposal of periodization of the linguistic history of the South of Bahia, in a survey of its language and speakers’ synoptic chart, observed in the region throughout its history, and in the trial to explain how took place the changing from a multilingual context, at the colonial period, into a unilingual context, nowadays.