The notion of linguistic rights and its guarantee in Brazil: between democracy and fascism

This article presents the discussion regarding the meanings of the notion of linguistic rights, within their connections with the alleged "universal human rights", as far as "individual rights" and "collective rights". After a conceptual review, we present facts of Brazil linguistic diversity, focusing our analyses on the processes of language co-officialization in municipal levels and the declaration of languages as intangible heritage. Considering how a certain Europe-based notion of linguistic rights has been inserted and spread among the Brazilian society, we suggest the need of producing a reterritorialization of this concept in another space of enunciation. At last, we put this policy of linguistic right acknowledgement through co-officialization on interpretation, enlightened by the concepts of democracy and fascism established by Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2016).