This paper presents an overview of the dialectological studies in Brazil and the current perspectives of that field of linguistic investigation. The article also discusses the development of Brazilian geolinguistic studies. It is given information of the five already published linguistic atlases and the other six still in course. Finally the paper presents the Atlas Lingüístico do Brasil project, describing its methodology and giving an account of the present stage of the research.
Dialectology; Geolinguistics; Variation
