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Preferred term

povUpper Guinea Crioulo  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Guinea-Bissau Creole (native name kriol, kiriol or kriolu varying with dialects; crioulo da Guiné in Portuguese) is the lingua franca of the West African country of Guinea Bissau. It is a Portuguese-based creole language, closely related to Cape Verdean creole. Kriolu is spoken as a first language by approximately 15% (190,000) of Bissau-Guineans, and as a second language by approximately 46% (600,000); it is also spoken in parts of Senegal, primarily as a trade language. Portuguese itself is the official language of Guinea Bissau, although it is not spoken regularly by a majority of the population.

Entry terms

  • Crioulo, Upper Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole

ISO 639-3 code

  • pov

Notation

  • pov

In other languages

  • Créole de Guinée-Bissau

    French

  • Guineabissauisches Kreol

    German

  • Crioulo da Guiné-Bissau

    Portuguese

  • Criollo bissauguineano

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/pov

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