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creole_atlantic · Cape Verde

Cape Verde (Barlavento / São Vicente Kriolu)

creole_atlanticintermediate

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Cape Verde · São Vicente / Barlavento

São Vicente's Barlavento Kriolu -- the variety of Mindelo -- diverged from Sotavento Santiago Kriolu partly through later settlement and heavier 19th-20th century Portuguese contact via the island's coaling-port economy, giving it a phonology closer to European Portuguese in places even though its grammar remains fully Kriolu, distinct from Portuguese.

Phonology closer to European Portuguese than Sotavento KrioluEuropean-Portuguese-like unstressed vowel reductionPreverbal TMA particle grammar retained (not Portuguese conjugation)Shaped by Mindelo's 19th-20th century coaling-port contact history

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FeatureValueMeaningDrill
LanguagelanguagemixedDrill
Mixed Languagesmixed_languagesDrill
S Treatments_treatmentstandardDrill
D Intervocalicd_intervocalicstandardDrill
D Finald_finalstandardDrill
R Infinitiver_infinitivestandardDrill
N Final Velarizationn_final_velarizationNoDrill
Final Consonant Dropfinal_consonant_dropnoneDrill
Vowel Reductionvowel_reductioncrisp_openDrill
Vowel Nasalizationvowel_nasalizationphonemicDrill
Mid Vowel Qualitymid_vowel_qualityreduced_unstressedDrill
R Guttural Strengthr_guttural_strengthmoderateDrill
Creole Tense Markingcreole_tense_markingYesDrill