Cape Verdean Creole continuum

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The Cape Verdean Creole continuum is a group of closely related Portuguese-based creole varieties spoken across the Cape Verde islands, forming a dialect continuum with gradual linguistic differences between regions.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Cape Verdean Creole continuum canonical 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Portuguese-based creole
dialect continuum
macrolanguage
coexistsWith Portuguese language in Cape Verde
developedFrom contact between Portuguese and African languages
emergedInCentury 15th century
emergedInContext Atlantic slave trade NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Cape Verdean Creole NERFINISHED
Kriolu NERFINISHED
hasDialectGroup Barlavento Creoles NERFINISHED
Sotavento Creoles NERFINISHED
hasISOStatus treated as multiple individual languages in some standards
hasLanguageFamily Portuguese Creole
hasLinguisticFeature SVO basic word order
gradual lexical differences between islands
gradual morphosyntactic differences between islands
gradual phonological differences between islands
lexicon largely derived from Portuguese
reduction of Portuguese inflectional morphology
use of preverbal tense-mood-aspect markers
hasRegion Barlavento islands NERFINISHED
Sotavento islands NERFINISHED
hasResearchField creole linguistics
hasSociolinguisticSituation diglossia with Portuguese
hasStandardizationStatus partially standardized orthographies for some varieties
hasStatus major vernacular of Cape Verde
hasSubstrateLanguage Guinean languages
Senegambian languages
West African languages NERFINISHED
hasSuperstrateLanguage Portuguese language NERFINISHED
hasVariety Boa Vista Creole NERFINISHED
Brava Creole NERFINISHED
Fogo Creole NERFINISHED
Maio Creole NERFINISHED
Sal Creole NERFINISHED
Santiago Creole NERFINISHED
Santo Antão Creole NERFINISHED
São Nicolau Creole NERFINISHED
São Vicente Creole NERFINISHED
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
spokenIn Cape Verde NERFINISHED
studiedFor Portuguese-based creole formation
dialect continuum properties
usedBy Cape Verdean population
usedFor everyday communication in Cape Verde
usedIn informal domains
oral literature
popular music

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Upper Guinea Creoles comparedWith Cape Verdean Creole continuum
Badiu Creole subgroupOf Cape Verdean Creole continuum