Boa Vista Creole

E162978

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

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Atlantic Creole
Cape Verdean Creole variety
Portuguese-based creole
spoken language
archipelago Cape Verde Islands
belongsTo Barlavento Creoles
closelyRelatedTo Sal Creole
São Nicolau Creole
continent Africa
country Cape Verde Islands
surface form: Cape Verde
developedFrom contact between Portuguese and African languages
hasAlternativeName Boa Vista variety of Cape Verdean Creole
hasDialectContinuumWith Brava Creole
Fogo Creole
Maio Creole
Sal Creole
Santiago Creole
Santo Antão Creole
São Nicolau Creole
São Vicente Creole
hasGrammarSimilarTo other Cape Verdean Creoles
hasInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese

West African languages
hasPhonologySimilarTo other Barlavento varieties
ISO639Macrolanguage Cape Verdean Creole
surface form: Kabuverdianu
languageFamily Creole language
Portuguese Creole
languageOf Boa Vista population
lexifierLanguage Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
partOf Cape Verdean Creole
primaryUse oral communication
region Boa Vista
surface form: Boa Vista Island
sociolinguisticStatus primarily spoken, rarely standardized in writing
spokenIn Boa Vista
Cape Verde Islands
surface form: Cape Verde
status regional language variety
typologicalFeature SVO basic word order
analytic morphology
use of preverbal tense–aspect–mood markers
usedAlongside Portuguese in Cape Verde
usedIn daily conversation
informal contexts
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Cape Verdean Creole hasPart Boa Vista Creole
Sal Creole closelyRelatedTo Boa Vista Creole
Barlavento Creoles hasDialect Boa Vista Creole
Barlavento Creoles hasDialect Boa Vista Creole
this entity surface form: Barlavento variety of Cape Verdean Creole
Upper Guinea Creoles hasPart Boa Vista Creole