Spoken L1 Language: Upper Guinea Crioulo
- AES status:
- not endangered
- Source:
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David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
- Comment:
- Guinea-Bissau Creole (pov-pov) = 3 (Wider communication). De facto language of national identity. Primary LWC in Guinea-Bissau. Developed as a trade language with the Portuguese during the colonial period. Has its origins in the Upper Guinea Creole that developed on Santiago island in Cabo Verde, spreading to the mainland and then to the Casamance region of Senegal and to all of Guinea-Bissau. Guinea-Bissau Creole is now an L2 that is actively supported by all ethnic groups in the country and used in most domains of public life outside of education. Has become a marker of national identity and solidarity.
Glottolog
[pov] at ISO 639-3
[pov] at OLAC
[pov] at IMTVault
Casamancese Creole at APiCS
Guinea Bissau Crioulo at WALS
Wikipedia
PHOIBLE
Wikidata