Políticas linguísticas Language policies Políticas Lingüísticas

In this article we analyze the language policies of Mozambique from its history and Portuguese colonization to national independence, formation and consolidation of the nation-state, based on the fact that the linguistic and cultural diversity represented by indigenous languages has been made invisible. in the period of Portuguese colonization and post-independence, in 1975, on the grounds that they questioned efforts to integrate the population into their domination, administration and consolidation of national unity, territorial integrity and the nation state. Thus, it is understood that the language policies of Mozambique resulted from the interface between the universalist / hegemonic colonial heritage and the challenge of building unity in diversity as a strategy for deepening the belonging to a plural society, thus preventing the political independence achieved. The linguistic independence meant that in the country prevails the standard norm of Portuguese Europe as regulator of the uses of the Portuguese language.