Fogo Crioulo language

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Fogo
Spoken in:	on Fogo Island Cape Verde
Total speakers:	around 45,000 to 50,000
Language family:	Portuguese Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`cpp`
ISO 639-3:	`kea` — Kabuverdianu
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The Fogo Crioulo (crioulo de Fogo in Portuguese) is the variant of Capeverdean creole spoken in the Fogo of Cape Verde. It has around 50,000 speakers or nearly 5% of Capeverdean Crioulo speakers including the diaspora's second language speakers. It belongs to the Sotavento (Kriolu) branch of the phylum. The rankings of this form of Capeverdean Crioulo is fourth after Santao Antão and ahead of Sal.

[edit] Vocabulary

Approxiamtely 95% of the vocabulary originates from the Portuguese language, about 5% are from various African languages, notably Bantu and Kwa substrates. Its structure is more from Portuguese than African in which some of the words and about 20% same as the Portuguese language but nearly 50% in pronunciation but with different letters including k for c and i for e.