“…It is known that at the beginning of colonization there was, in Brazil, a very large linguistic variety, but that 'colonization', a phenomenon that created racialization in America and subordinated the original peoples, was responsible for several genocides, among them, the linguistic. According to Seki (1999), nowadays, there is an estimate that e-ISSN nº 2447-4266 Palmas, v. 7, n. 1, p. 1-16, jan.-mar., 2021Palmas, v. 7, n. 1, p. 1-16, jan.-mar., http://dx.doi.org/10.20873/uft.2447 2 about 180 indigenous languages are still spoken in Brazil, however, many more were spoken. The studies produce an estimate that, since the arrival of the Portuguese people, it is possible that at least 1,000 languages have been lost.…”