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Upper Guinea Creole information


The Upper Guinea Creoles are Portuguese-based creole languages, based in West Africa, that have Portuguese as their substantial lexifier.

It includes the languages:

  • Cape Verdean Creole, spoken in Cape Verde.
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole, spoken in Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance, Senegal.
  • Papiamento, spoken in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao.

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Upper Guinea Creole

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The Upper Guinea Creoles are Portuguese-based creole languages, based in West Africa, that have Portuguese as their substantial lexifier. It includes the...

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Upper Guinea Creoles

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Upper Guinea Creoles can refer to: Guinea-Bissau CreoleCreole spoken in Guinea-Bissau Cape Verdean CreoleCreole spoken in Cape Verde Also related...

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Guinea Creole

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Guinea Creole can refer to: Upper Guinea Creoles (disambiguation) — Group of Creoles that include Guinea-Bissau Creole and Cape Verdean Creole Guinea-Bissau...

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Papiamento

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Portuguese creole languages that developed in the West African coasts, as it has many similarities with Cape Verdean Creole and Guinea-Bissau Creole. There...

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Languages of Papua New Guinea

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New Guinean Sign Language. Tok Pisin, an English-based creole, is the most widely spoken, serving as the country's lingua franca. Papua New Guinean Sign...

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Cape Verdean Creole

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not to the verb). It is noteworthy that the Upper Guinea creoles (Cape Verdean Creole and Guinea-Bissau Creole) put the past tense marker after the verbs...

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List of creole languages

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African languages Upper Guinea and Cape Verde: Cape Verdean Creole, spoken on the islands of Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau Creole, spoken in Guinea-Bissau São Vicente...

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Casamance Creole

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Creole or Cacheu-Ziguinchor Creole also Portuguis Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language that is considered a dialect of Guinea-Bissau Creole spoken...

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Casamance

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preserved the local variant of Upper Guinea Creole known as Casamance Creole, and the members of the deep-rooted Creole community carry Portuguese surnames...

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Sierra Leone Creole people

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with Dutch settlers, later produced a creolized population. The Fernandino Creole peoples of Equatorial Guinea are a mix of Afro-Cubans with Emancipados...

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Gullah language

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spoke a Guinea Coast Creole English, also called West African Pidgin English, before they were forcibly relocated to the Americas. Guinea Coast Creole English...

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Equatorial Guinea

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Equatorial Guinea (Spanish: Guinea Ecuatorial; French: Guinée équatoriale; Portuguese: Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (Spanish:...

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Portuguese language in Africa

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co-exists in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Principe with Portuguese-based creoles (Upper Guinea and Gulf of Guinea Creoles), but Portuguese...

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Portuguese Guinea

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penetrated the rivers and creeks of Upper Guinea, forming a mulatto population speaking a Portuguese-based Creole language as a lingua franca. However...

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Guinea Grass

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watching Television. English Creole is used for trading with locals and other Belizeans so is Spanish. 89- 92% of Guinea Grass residents can have an understandable...

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Languages of Africa

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Cameroon; Cape Verdean Creole in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau Creole in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, all from Portuguese; Seychellois Creole in the Seychelles...

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Indigenous people of New Guinea

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found only on New Guinea and neighboring islands, as well as Austronesian languages along parts of the coast, and recently developed creoles such as Tok Pisin...

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Krio language

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Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal, and Guinea. As a result of Sierra Leone Creole migratory patterns, in the Gambia, the Gambian Creoles or Aku community...

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Gullah

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the creole dialect of English spoken by Gullah and Geechee people. Over time, its speakers have used this term to formally refer to their creole language...

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African French

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français d'Afrique noire, français créole ou créole français ?" [The French of black Africa: French creole or creole French?]. Langue française (in French)...

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Chavacano

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Chavacano or Chabacano ([tʃabaˈkano]) is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines. The variety spoken in Zamboanga...

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Melanesians

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and indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia, in an area stretching from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands. Most speak one of the many languages of the Austronesian...

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Louisiana

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(French: Louisiane [lwizjan] ; Spanish: Luisiana [lwiˈsjana]; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the...

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