Upper Guinea Creoles

E155265

Atlantic creole Portuguese-based creole language group

Upper Guinea Creoles are a group of closely related Portuguese-based creole languages spoken primarily along the West African coast, especially in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Cape Verde.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Sotavento Creoles	1
Upper Guinea Creoles canonical	1
Upper Guinea Portuguese Creole	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Atlantic creole ⓘ Portuguese-based creole ⓘ language group ⓘ
areSubjectOf	creole studies research ⓘ historical linguistics research ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
comparedWith	Cape Verdean Creole continuum ⓘ Gulf of Guinea Creoles ⓘ
developedFrom	contact between Portuguese and African languages ⓘ
hasPart	Boa Vista Creole ⓘ Brava Creole ⓘ Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ Casamance Creole ⓘ Fogo Creole ⓘ Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ Maio Creole ⓘ São Nicolau Creole ⓘ surface form: Santiago Creole Santo Antão Creole ⓘ São Nicolau Creole ⓘ São Vicente Creole ⓘ
historicalOrigin	Portuguese colonial expansion in West Africa ⓘ
influencedBy	Balanta ⓘ Fulani ⓘ surface form: Fula Mandinka ⓘ West African languages ⓘ Wolof ⓘ
ISOClassification	often classified under Portuguese-based creoles of the Atlantic ⓘ
languageFamily	Portuguese creole ⓘ
linguisticFeature	analytic grammatical structure ⓘ high lexical similarity with Portuguese ⓘ phonological simplification compared to Portuguese ⓘ
primaryLexifier	Portuguese language ⓘ surface form: Portuguese
region	Upper Guinea ⓘ West Africa ⓘ
spokenIn	Cape Verde Islands ⓘ surface form: Cape Verde The Gambia ⓘ surface form: Gambia Guinea-Bissau ⓘ Senegal ⓘ
subclassOf	creole language ⓘ
timePeriod	emerged between 15th and 17th centuries ⓘ
typologicalFeature	SVO word order ⓘ lack of grammatical gender ⓘ reduction of Portuguese inflectional morphology ⓘ serial verb constructions ⓘ use of preverbal tense-mood-aspect markers ⓘ
usedAs	lingua franca in parts of West Africa ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

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

Guinea-Bissau Creole → isPartOf → Upper Guinea Creoles ⓘ

Cape Verdean Creole → hasDialects → Upper Guinea Creoles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sotavento Creoles

Casamance Creole → languageFamily → Upper Guinea Creoles ⓘ

this entity surface form: Upper Guinea Portuguese Creole