Languages of Cape Verde Islands
[See also SIL publications on the languages of Cape Verde Islands.]Republic of Cape Verde, República de Cabo Verde. 507,000. National or official languages: Portuguese, Kabuverdianu. Literacy rate: 37%–70%. Information mainly from S. and T. Graham 2002; J. Holm 1989. The number of individual languages listed for Cape Verde Islands is 2. Of those, both are living languages.
| Kabuverdianu | [kea]
394,000 in Cape Verde Islands (1998 S. Graham). 255,101 in Sotavento or 65%; 138,842 in Barlavento or 35%. Population total all countries: 954,000. Sotavento is on Santiago, Maio, Fogo, and Brava islands; Barlavento is on Santo Antão, São Vicente, São Nicolau, Sal, and Boa Vista islands. Also in France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Mozambique, Netherlands, Portugal, Senegal, Spain, United States.
Alternate names: “Badiu” , Caboverdiano, Criol, Crioulo, Kriol, Krioulo, “Sampadjudu”.
Dialects: Sotavento, Barlavento. There is a creole continuum and some decreolization. Lexical similarity: 59% with the Gulf of Guinea creoles.
Classification: Creole, Portuguese based
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| Portuguese | [por]
14,800 in Cape Verde Islands (2004).
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Ibero-Romance, West Iberian, Portuguese-Galician
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