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Crioles
You are speaking a creole right now. Aren't you ashamed? English is a creole at two levels. Syntactically it is a Norsic creole and in terms of vocabulary it can be considered a French-Latin creole like Haitian.
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Kabuverdianu
A language of Cape Verde Islands
ISO 639-3: kea
Population
394,000 in Cape Verde Islands (1998 S. Graham). 255,101 in Sotavento or 65%; 138,842 in Barlavento or 35%. Population total all countries: 954,000.
Region
Sotavento is on Santiago, Maio, Fogo, and Brava islands; Barlavento is on Santo Antão, São Vicente, São Nicolau, Sal, and Boa Vista islands. Also in France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Mozambique, Netherlands, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, United States.
Alternate names
“Badiu” , Caboverdiano, Criol, Crioulo, Kriol, Krioulo, “Sampadjudu”
Dialects Sotavento, Barlavento.
There is a creole continuum and some decreolization.
Lexical similarity: 59% with the Gulf of Guinea creoles.
Classification Creole, Portuguese based
Language use
National language. 29% are comfortable in Portuguese, 36% uncomfortable, 34% not functional. Since independence in 1975, the domains of spoken Portuguese have receded in favor of Kabuverdianu.
Language development
Literacy rate in L2: 29% Portuguese. Radio programs. Dictionary. Grammar. Bible portions: 1936.
Comments “Badiu” (lit. ‘idle’) and “Sampadjudu” (lit. ‘always covered with grass’) were originally applied by the Portuguese to speakers on the islands of Santiago and Santo Antão, respectively; both terms are now considered pejorative. Christian.
A language of Cape Verde Islands
ISO 639-3: kea
Population
394,000 in Cape Verde Islands (1998 S. Graham). 255,101 in Sotavento or 65%; 138,842 in Barlavento or 35%. Population total all countries: 954,000.
Region
Sotavento is on Santiago, Maio, Fogo, and Brava islands; Barlavento is on Santo Antão, São Vicente, São Nicolau, Sal, and Boa Vista islands. Also in France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Mozambique, Netherlands, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, United States.
Alternate names
“Badiu” , Caboverdiano, Criol, Crioulo, Kriol, Krioulo, “Sampadjudu”
Dialects Sotavento, Barlavento.
There is a creole continuum and some decreolization.
Lexical similarity: 59% with the Gulf of Guinea creoles.
Classification Creole, Portuguese based
Language use
National language. 29% are comfortable in Portuguese, 36% uncomfortable, 34% not functional. Since independence in 1975, the domains of spoken Portuguese have receded in favor of Kabuverdianu.
Language development
Literacy rate in L2: 29% Portuguese. Radio programs. Dictionary. Grammar. Bible portions: 1936.
Comments “Badiu” (lit. ‘idle’) and “Sampadjudu” (lit. ‘always covered with grass’) were originally applied by the Portuguese to speakers on the islands of Santiago and Santo Antão, respectively; both terms are now considered pejorative. Christian.