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unusual facts about Cape Verdean Creole


O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde

The book is a description of the Cape Verdean Creole including the grammar, the phonology and the lexicon.


Atalaia, Cape Verde

Atalaia (also in Cape Verdean Creole), is a village located approximately 20 km northeast of the island capital of Sao Filipe and southwest of Mosteiros on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.

Ilhéu de Sal-Rei

Ilhéu de Sal Rei (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC: Djeu d Sal Rei) is an islet located 1 km west of Sal Rei and nearly 1 km southwest of its nearest point of Boa Vista Island (which includes Praia de Chaves) in Cape Verde.

Ilhéu dos Pássaros

Ilhéu de Pássaros (in Cape Verdean Creole: Djeu) is an islet located between 2 to 3 kilometres NW of the island of São Vicente (Mindelo) and also 2 kilometres northwest of the Mindelo's nearby point, the João Ribeira.

Papiamento

Around those ports there developed several Portuguese-African pidgins and creoles, such as Guinea-Bissau Creole, Mina, Cape Verdean Creole, Angolar, and Guene.

Ribeira Ilhéu

Ribeira Ilhéu (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC: Ribera Djeu), is a village located approximately 15 km northeast of the island capital of Sao Filipe and west of Mosteiros on the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.

São Filipe, Cape Verde

São Filipe (Portuguese for "Saint Philip"), or San Filipi in Cape Verdean Creole, is the city that constitutes the seat of the São Filipe Municipality on the isle of Fogo, in Cape Verde.

Vila do Maio

The city is still (colloquially) known by its old name, Porto Inglês (Portuguese for "English port" in which was founded, Cape Verdean Creole: Port’ Inglês), in opposition of the older Porto Português (present day Calheta).


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