Guinea-Bissau Creole

Spoken in

Kreol

• Portuguese based African Portuguese Creoles Oberguineakreol

Cpp

Pov

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

It is a Portuguese -based creole language, and very closely related to the Cape Verdean Creole in Cape Verde. Kriolu is now estimated at 15% ( 206,000 ) of the Guinea bite Auer spoken as a mother tongue and as a second language by about 46 % ( 600,000 ); it is also spoken in parts of Senegal, mainly as a trade language. Portuguese itself since the Portuguese colonial era, the only official language of Guinea-Bissau, although it is not regularly spoken by a majority of the population.

Upper Guinea creoles are the oldest Portuguese -based creoles in Africa, which first appeared to the Portuguese settlements along the northern coast of West Africa. Bissau - Guinean Creole is therefore among the first Portuguese creoles. Portuguese traders and settlers immediately began to mingle with the West Africans; This was a rule under the Portuguese explorers and the main reason for the large number of Portuguese Creole languages ​​in the world. Lançados called A small body of settlers ( " the Islolated " ), the Portuguese language began to redistribute and to practice on local influence by marriage with those.

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

• Bissau and Bolama
• Bafata
• Cacheu Ziguinchor

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