DICIONÁRIOS MULTIMÍDIA: UMA TECNOLOGIA SOCIAL<u> </u>PARA AUXILIAR A APRENDIZAGEM E REVITALIZAÇÃO DE LÍNGUAS MINORIZADAS

This article discusses the importance of multimedia dictionaries as multifunctional and multipurpose products developed as a social technology aimed at the learning of endangered languages. Multimedia dictionaries for Indigenous languages represent a reusable, freely available, and easily accessible methodology that can be used by communities on a large scale without the need for internet access. The use of technology such as smartphones, tablets, or computers, though still incipient, is already a reality in many Indigenous communities, which favors the implementation of dictionaries in digital formats whose lexical entries can be illustrated with multimedia resources. The article first presents the concept, methodology, and technology involved in creating these dictionaries and describes the macro- and microstructures adopted in them, which are determined according to the needs of speakers or potential speakers of the language. It also discusses the role of multimedia dictionaries in language planning within the context of revitalization practices for minoritized and endangered languages, based on the experience of developing dictionaries for eight Indigenous languages  at the Linguistics Division of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) in collaboration with the University of New Mexico (UNM, USA): Kanoé, Sakurabiat, Oro Win, Djeoromitxi, Puruborá, Makurap, Wayoro and Salamãi. In the context of vulnerability and the threat of extinction faced by most Indigenous languages in Brazil, multimedia dictionaries emerge as a tool to support language revitalization and can be useful both in the transmission of languages and in their documentation and description.