The population of 32-year-old state of Tocantins, Brazil, hails from different states to the
detriment of settlement processes during centuries. The state actually became a multi variegated space due to gold rushes between the 17th and 19th centuries on the northern region
of the state of Goiás. In the 20th century, due to the construction of highway BR-153 and the
separation of territory from the state of Goiás, the space became the scene of different social
cultures and, consequently, linguistic variations. Current dissertation provides a macro-view
of the state´s dialectical variation through the analysis of variants collected for the toys/games
field collected by the Topodynamic and Topostatic Linguistic Atlas of the state of Tocantins
(SILVA, 2018), at twelve sites, with 96 informers. Data are analyzed from the aspect of
Pluridimensional and Relational Dialectology (THUN, 1998) to provide variations according
to the general diatopic and diatopic-kinetic dimensions, or rather, responses given by
topostatic informers in contrast to topodynamic groups. Further, current dissertation
contrasted variants collected on the field, featuring studies by Ribeiro (2012) on discourse
from Bahia, and by Portilho (2013) on discourse from the Amazon region, to investigate
which variants were shared by the three spaces. Results are given in tables, linguistic charts
and graphs to represent variants of the semantic field under analysis and to detect co relationships with migration and transmigration processes. As a rule, the thirteen issues
revealed a preference of informers calling children´s games by normal or school forms. When
contrasting current analysis with that by Ribeiro (2012) and Portilho (2013), we perceive the
usage of dialects from the Northern and Northeastern regions of Brazils, with a trend towards
the latter. In the case of the informer´s mobility, the autochthone and allochthone populations
maintain the same trends, with slight differences, when they mention toys/games. On
abstentions, in two issues, the non-answers go beyond the variants pique and cair no poço,
whilst in four issues they ranked second and they featured poor productivity in another four.
Therefore, from the dialectical point of view, data indicate that the Tocantins speech is in
process. In fact, there are lexical preferences for forms also evident in the Amazon and Bahia
types of speech, coupled to the use of variants from other different Brazilian regions. Variants
were predominantly retrieved in the center-south region of the state of Tocantins.
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