Boa Vista Crioulo language

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Boa Vista
Spoken in:	on Boa Vista Island Cape Verde
Total speakers:	around 5,000
Language family:	Portuguese Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`cpp`
ISO 639-3:	`kea` — Kabuverdianu
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The Boa Vista Crioulo (crioulo de Boa Vista in Portuguese, Kriolu di Boa Vista in ALUPEC/ALUPEK) is the variant of Capeverdean creole spoken in the Brava Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Barlavento (Criol) branch of the phylum. The speakers of this form of Capeverdean Crioulo are 5,000 and is the least spoken form of Crioulo in the language. Literature is rarely recorded but one of the speakers who was born on the island was Germano Almeida.

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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 easiest is rarely the same as the Brava and São Vicente Creoles. The comparison is very difficult especially in speaking, its phonetics are half difficult to link with Portuguese. The words are less than 20% the same as Portuguese but around 20% in pronunciation, the structure is about 30 to 40% Africanized and the remainder being of Portuguese origin .