Cape Verdean Creole

E28454
Portuguese-based creole creole language macrolanguage

Cape Verdean Creole is a group of Portuguese-based creole languages spoken in Cape Verde, shaped by West African linguistic and cultural influences.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form Occurrences
Cabo Verdean Creole 1
Cape Verdean Portuguese 1
Crioulo cabo-verdiano 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Portuguese-based creole ⓘ
creole language ⓘ
macrolanguage ⓘ
country Cape Verde Islands ⓘ
surface form: Cape Verde
developedDuring Atlantic slave trade ⓘ
developedFrom Portuguese language ⓘ
developedIn Cape Verde Islands ⓘ
ethnicityAssociated Cape Verde Islands ⓘ
surface form: Cape Verdeans
glottocode cape1260 ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
surface form: Cabo Verdean Creole

Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
surface form: Crioulo cabo-verdiano

Portuguese Creole ⓘ
surface form: Kriolu
hasDialects Badiu Creole ⓘ
Barlavento Creoles ⓘ
Maio Creole ⓘ
surface form: Sanpadjudu Creole

Upper Guinea Creoles ⓘ
surface form: Sotavento Creoles
hasPart Boa Vista Creole ⓘ
Brava Creole ⓘ
Barlavento Creoles ⓘ
surface form: Fogo Creole

Maio Creole ⓘ
Sal Creole ⓘ
Santiago Creole ⓘ
Cape Verdean Creole self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Santo Antão Creole

São Nicolau Creole ⓘ
Portuguese Creole ⓘ
surface form: São Vicente Creole
hasRegulator Instituto da Língua Cabo-verdiana ⓘ
influencedBy Mandinka ⓘ
West African languages ⓘ
Wolof ⓘ
other Atlantic West African languages ⓘ
ISO639-3 kea ⓘ
languageFamily Portuguese creole ⓘ
officialStatus recognized as national language in Cape Verde ⓘ
primaryLexifier Portuguese language ⓘ
surface form: Portuguese
region Atlantic Ocean ⓘ
Macaronesia ⓘ
spokenIn Cape Verde Islands ⓘ
surface form: Cape Verde

West Africa ⓘ
diaspora communities ⓘ
subclassOf Portuguese-based creole language ⓘ
typologicalFeature SVO word order ⓘ
analytic grammar ⓘ
little inflectional morphology ⓘ
usedFor everyday communication in Cape Verde ⓘ
literature ⓘ
media ⓘ
music ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (14)

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

Papiamento → closelyRelatedTo → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
Praia → commonLanguage → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
Cape Verdean Creole → hasAlternativeName → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cabo Verdean Creole
Cape Verdean Creole → hasAlternativeName → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Crioulo cabo-verdiano
Fogo → hasLanguage → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
African Portuguese → hasPart → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Cape Verdean Portuguese
Cape Verdean Creole → hasPart → Cape Verdean Creole self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Santo Antão Creole
West African languages → influenced → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
African Portuguese → influencedBy → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Crioulo languages of Cape Verde
Guinea-Bissau Creole → isCloselyRelatedTo → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
Brava → languageSpoken → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
Macaronesia → languageUsed → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
São Nicolau → localLanguage → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
Cape Verde Islands → nationalLanguage → Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ