Guinea-Bissau Creole

E28650
Portuguese-based creole creole language lingua franca

Guinea-Bissau Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language widely used as a lingua franca in Guinea-Bissau, blending Portuguese vocabulary with local West African linguistic features.

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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form Occurrences
Annobonese Creole 1
Crioulo da Guiné-Bissau 1
Guinea-Bissau Kriol 1

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Portuguese-based creole ⓘ
creole language ⓘ
lingua franca ⓘ
alternativeName Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
surface form: Crioulo da Guiné-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
surface form: Guinea-Bissau Kriol

Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
surface form: Kriol

Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
surface form: Upper Guinea Creole (Guinea-Bissau variety)
developedFrom contact between Portuguese and West African languages ⓘ
emergedInCentury 17th century ⓘ
hasCountry Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup Balanta ⓘ
Fulani ⓘ
surface form: Fula

Guineans ⓘ
Mandinka ⓘ
surface form: Mandinga

Manjaco ⓘ
Other ethnic groups in Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
Pepel ⓘ
hasGlottocode uppe1455 ⓘ
hasInfluencedByLanguage Balanta ⓘ
Fula language ⓘ
surface form: Fula

Mandinka ⓘ
Papel ⓘ
Portuguese language ⓘ
surface form: Portuguese
hasISO639-3Code pov ⓘ
hasLanguageBranch Guinea-Bissau Creole self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Upper Guinea Portuguese Creole
hasLanguageFamily Portuguese Creole ⓘ
hasLanguageRegulator no official regulatory body ⓘ
hasLexifierLanguage Portuguese language ⓘ
surface form: Portuguese
hasMorphologicalFeature analytic tense-aspect-mood marking ⓘ
lack of grammatical gender ⓘ
hasNumberOfSpeakers over 1 million ⓘ
hasOfficialLanguageOfCountry none ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature reduction of Portuguese consonant clusters ⓘ
hasRegion Casamance ⓘ
Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
Senegal ⓘ
The Gambia ⓘ
hasScript Latin script ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticRole used in informal education and literacy efforts ⓘ
used in markets and interethnic communication ⓘ
used in popular music in Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
hasStatus lingua franca in Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
not an official language of Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
widely used in urban areas of Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature SVO basic word order ⓘ
isCloselyRelatedTo Cape Verdean Creole ⓘ
Casamance Creole ⓘ
isPartOf Upper Guinea Creoles ⓘ
usedByReligion Christian communities in Guinea-Bissau ⓘ
Muslim communities in Guinea-Bissau ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

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

Guinea-Bissau Creole → alternativeName → Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Kriol
Guinea-Bissau Creole → alternativeName → Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Guinea-Bissau Kriol
Guinea-Bissau Creole → alternativeName → Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Crioulo da Guiné-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau Creole → alternativeName → Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Upper Guinea Creole (Guinea-Bissau variety)
Papiamento → closelyRelatedTo → Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
Guinea-Bissau Creole → hasLanguageBranch → Guinea-Bissau Creole self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Upper Guinea Portuguese Creole
African Portuguese → hasPart → Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Guinea-Bissau Portuguese
West African languages → influenced → Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
African Portuguese → influencedBy → Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
Guinea-Bissau → officialLanguage → Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
Equatorial Guinea → recognizedNationalLanguage → Guinea-Bissau Creole ⓘ
this entity surface form: Annobonese Creole