Guinea-Bissau Creole

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Guinea-Bissau Creole ( Kriol , Kiriol , Kriolu )

Spoken in

Guinea-Bissau
Senegal
speaker 483,400; 600,000 as a second language
Linguistic
classification

Creole

  • Portuguese based
    • Afro-Portuguese Creole
      • Upper Guinea Creole
    Guinea-Bissau Creole
Language codes
ISO 639 -2

cpp

ISO 639-3

pov

The Guineabissauische Creole (proper name Kriol , KIRIOL or Kriolu varying with the dialects; crioulo da Guiné in Portuguese ) is the lingua franca of the West African country of Guinea-Bissau .

It is a Portuguese-based Creole language and is very closely related to Cape Verde Creole on Cape Verde . Kriolu is now spoken by an estimated 15% (206,000) of Guinea pigs as their mother tongue, and as a second language by around 46% (600,000); it is also spoken in parts of Senegal , primarily as a commercial language. Portuguese itself has been the only official language of Guinea-Bissau since the Portuguese colonial times , although it is not spoken regularly by a large part of the population.

Upper Guinea Creole languages ​​are the oldest Portuguese-based Creole languages ​​in Africa, which first appeared around the Portuguese settlements along the northern coast of West Africa. Bissau-Guinean Creole is therefore one of the first Portuguese Creole languages. Portuguese traders and settlers immediately began to mingle with the West Africans; this became a rule among Portuguese explorers and the main reason for the large number of Portuguese Creole languages ​​in the world. A small body of settlers called lançados ("the Vorandringer") began to spread the Portuguese language further and to influence locals through marriage.

There are three main dialects of this Creole language in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal:

The substrate languages ​​of the Creole are the languages ​​of the local peoples: Mandingas , Manjacos , Pepéis , Mancagne and others, but most of the vocabulary (about 80%) comes from Portuguese.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ethnologue