Back Criollu de Guinea-Bisáu AST Crioll de Guinea Bissau Catalan Guineabissauisches Kreol German Gvinebisaŭkreola lingvo Esperanto Criollo de Guinea-Bisáu Spanish Créole de Guinée-Bissau French Crioulo da Guinea-Bissau Galician ギニアビサウ・クレオール語 Japanese 기니비사우 크리올 Korean Kriol NB
| Guinea-Bissau Creole | |
|---|---|
| Kiriol, Crioulo | |
| guinensi, kriyol, kiriol, purtuguis 'kriolo' | |
| Native to | Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, The Gambia |
Native speakers | L1: 350,000 (2013–2022)[1] L2: 1.5 million (2013–2022)[1] |
Portuguese Creole
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pov |
| Glottolog | uppe1455 |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAC-ab |
Guinea-Bissau Creole, also known as Kiriol or Crioulo,[2] is a creole language whose lexicon derives mostly from Portuguese. It is spoken in Guinea Bissau, Senegal and The Gambia. It is also called by its native speakers as guinensi,[3] kriyol,[4] or portuguis.
Guinea-Bissau Creole is spoken as a native tongue by 250,000 Bissau-Guineans[citation needed] and as a second language by 1,000,000.[citation needed]
A variant of Guinea-Bissau Creole is also spoken in southern Senegal, mainly in the region of Casamance, a former Portuguese colony, which is known as Portuguis Creole or Casamance Creole. Creole is the majority language of the inhabitants of the Casamance region and is used as a language of commerce.[5]
Standard Portuguese is the official language of Guinea-Bissau, but Guinea-Bissau Creole is the language of trade, informal literature and entertainment. It is not used in either news media, parliament, public services or educational programming.[6]
- ^ a b Guinea-Bissau Creole at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
- ^ Benson, Carol (2003). "Possibilities for educational language choice in multilingual Guinea-Bissau". In Huss, Leena; Camilleri Grima, Antoinette; King, Kendall (eds.). Transcending Monolingualism: Linguistic Revitalization in Education. Swets & Zeitlinger. pp. 67–88. ISBN 1134380828.
- ^ Scantamburlo, Luigi (2019). Dicionário do Guineense (2a. ed.). Lisboa: Colibri. ISBN 9789896898106. OCLC 1091114509.
- ^ Kihm (1994)
- ^ Horta, José (12–25 April 2006). "A Língua Portuguesa no Senegal" [Portuguese language in Senegal] (in Portuguese). Instituto Camões. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ Intumbo, Incanha, Situação Sociolinguística da Guiné-bissau [Sociolinguistic Situation in Guinea-Bissau] (PDF) (in Portuguese), archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-12-18, retrieved 2014-12-21
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