Sal Creole

E155067

Sal Creole is a regional variety of Cape Verdean Creole spoken primarily on the island of Sal in Cape Verde.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Sal Creole canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cape Verdean Creole variety
Portuguese-based creole
regional language variety
belongsToDialectGroup Barlavento Creoles
closelyRelatedTo Boa Vista Creole
Santo Antão Creole
São Vicente Creole
country Cape Verde Islands
surface form: Cape Verde
countryOfficialLanguageContext Cape Verde (where Cape Verdean Creole is widely used alongside Portuguese)
developedFrom Cape Verdean Creole
hasAlternativeName Criol de Sal
Kriol di Sal
hasLanguageCode none (no separate ISO 639-3 code)
influencedBy Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese

West African languages
island Sal
languageFamily Portuguese Creole
Upper Guinea Creole
partOf Cape Verdean Creole
primaryLexifier Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
region Barlavento Islands
spokenBy inhabitants of Sal
spokenIn Cape Verde Islands
surface form: Cape Verde

Sal
status oral tradition dominant
usedFor everyday communication
informal contexts
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cape Verdean Creole hasPart Sal Creole
Barlavento Creoles hasDialect Sal Creole