Understanding the role of loanblend and calque borrowings by Xerente Akwen from Portuguese

In the last 15 years scholars from around the world have been showing the increasing number of minority languages death. Many of them have been creating sociolinguistic typologies that can handle the micro and macro-variables affecting them. At the level of language, borrowings have been considered as very threatening, mainly because they can be invisible to their speakers. Amongst the macro-variables, migration has been pointed out as critical, since in the cities the minority languages suffer a greater impact from the majority ones. My main goal in this article is to show and discuss how borrowings and migration are impacting the Xerente Akwen language in relationship to the mobility of the scenario the Xerente Akwen people are inserted in. The main results show that many more studies will be necessary to shed light to the present sociolinguistic situation. Adapted from the source document