Английская Википедия:Brava Creole

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Brava Creole is the name given to the variant of Cape Verdean Creole spoken mainly in the Brava Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Sotavento Creoles branch. The speakers of this form of Capeverdean Creole are 8,000 (1.36% of the national population)Шаблон:Fact. One of the least spoken being seventh place and one of the firsts to have written literature, in which Eugénio Tavares wrote some of his poems.

Characteristics

Besides the main characteristics of Sotavento Creoles the Brava Creole has also the following ones:

Vocabulary

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Grammar

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Phonology

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Alphabet

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References

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Further reading

  • The Creole dialect of the island of Brava (Meintel, Deirdre, 1975) in Miscelânea luso-africana coord. Marius F. Valkhoff
  • The syntax of Cape Verdean Creole. The Sotavento Varieties (Baptista, Marlyse, 2002)
  • Crioulo de Cabo Verde — Situação Linguística da Zona do Barlavento (Delgado, Carlos Alberto; Praia: IBNL, 2008)

External links

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