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Cape Verdean Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken on the islands of Cape Verde. [4] It is the native creole language of virtually all Cape Verdeans and is used as a second language by the Cape Verdean diaspora. The creole has particular importance for creolistics studies since it is the oldest living creole. [5]
While Cape Verdean Creole is the mother tongue of nearly all the population in Cape Verde, Portuguese is the official language.Creole is, therefore, used colloquially, in everyday usage, while Portuguese is used in official situations, at schools, in the media, etc. Portuguese and Creole live in a state of diglossia, meaning that Portuguese is typically used in formal situations, in the media ...
Santiago Creole is the name given to the Cape Verdean Creole spoken mainly on Santiago Island of Cape Verde.It belongs to the Sotavento Creoles branch of Creole.. Santiago Creole is the linguistic entity of the most important island of Cape Verde, and the linguistic entity of the capital of the country, Praia, situated in the same island.
Cape Verdean Creole: Vigorous use, Cape Verde Islands. Guinea-Bissau Creole: Vigorous use. Lingua franca in Guinea-Bissau, also spoken in Casamance, Senegal. Growing number of speakers. Papiamento: [1] Official language in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. Although situated in the Caribbean, it belongs to this language family. It has a growing ...
Similar to Guinea-Bissau, although Portuguese is the only official language, a Portuguese-based creole known as Cape Verdean Creole is spoken by the majority of the population. Most Cape Verdeans are fluent in Portuguese as well. Education and media are available largely in standard European Portuguese only.
Papiamento, spoken in the ABC islands in the southern Caribbean; Saramaccan, creole language of Suriname with vocabulary built based on English, Portuguese, and West and Central African languages; Upper Guinea and Cape Verde: Cape Verdean Creole, spoken on the islands of Cape Verde; Guinea-Bissau Creole, spoken in Guinea-Bissau
São Vicente Creole is the name given to the variant of Cape Verdean Creole spoken mainly in the São Vicente Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Barlavento Creoles branch. It is the second most widely spoken Cape Verdean creole. It has produced literature from a lot of writers and musicians including Sergio Frusoni and many more.
On 20 July 1998, the ALUPEC was approved [5] [6] by the Conselho de Ministros de Cabo Verde, for a five-year trial period. According to the same council, the ALUPEC would "take into account the diversity of the Cape Verdean Language in all the islands, and only after that trial period its introduction in schools would be considered".