Santo Antão Crioulo language
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| Spoken in: | on Santo Antão Island Cape Verde |
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| Total speakers: | around 50,000 to 60,000 | |
| Language family: | Portuguese Creole | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | cpp | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | kea — Kabuverdianu | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Santo Antão Crioulo, locally Linga d'Sintantom (crioulo de Santo Anrão in Portuguese), is the variant of Capeverdean creole spoken in the São Vicente Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Barlavento (Criol) branch of the phylum. It is rank third of nine in the number of speakers and is before Fogo and after the neighbouring São Vicente.
The language has speakers around the island, the national capital of Praia and around the world among the diaspora. The language has been used in literature.
[edit] Vocabulary
Approximately 90 to 95% of the vocabulary originates from the Portuguese language, about 5 to 10% are from various African languages, notably Bantu and Kwa substrates. The structure is the most hardest and is nearly the same as the São Nicolau Crioulo. The comparison is very difficult especially in speaking, its phonetics is very difficult to link with Portuguese. One example is k'môd' for comodo? and another is l'zim, some have it half the same but it also contains the word panorama'. The words are less than 50% the same as Portuguese but around 50% in pronunciation, the structure is more Africanized than of Portuguese
[edit] Alphabet
The order of alphabet is with other languages around the world here:
- A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Z
- a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v x z
[edit] External link
- a bilingual bar-pub site in Santo Antão Crioulo and French.
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