Sotavento Creoles

E643331

Sotavento Creoles are a group of closely related Portuguese-based creole languages spoken in the southern (leeward) islands of Cape Verde.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sotavento Creoles canonical 4
Sotavento Creole area 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (31)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Portuguese-based creole
group of languages
basedOnLanguage Portuguese language
contrastedWith Barlavento Creoles
developedFrom Portuguese language
geographicalDistribution Brava Island
Fogo Island
Maio Island
Santiago Island
Sotavento Islands
hasAlternativeName Sotavento Cape Verdean Creoles
hasDialectGroup Fogo-Brava Creole dialects
linked to: Fogo Creole

Santiago Creole dialects
linked to: Santiago Creole
hasMember Brava Creole
Fogo Creole
Maio Creole
Santiago Creole
languageFamily Atlantic Creole
Indo-European languages
Portuguese Creole
originatedIn Cape Verde archipelago
linked to: Cape Verde Islands
partOf Cape Verdean Creole continuum
spokenIn Cape Verde
linked to: Cape Verde Islands
spokenInRegion leeward islands of Cape Verde
southern islands of Cape Verde
subclassOf Cape Verdean Creole
typologicalFeature Portuguese-derived lexicon
creole grammar
usedAs vernacular language in Cape Verde
usedBy Cape Verdean population in Sotavento Islands
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maio Creole subclassOf Sotavento Creoles
Badiu Creole subgroupOf Sotavento Creoles
Brava (Cape Verde) hasCulturalRegion Sotavento Creole area
linked to: Sotavento Creoles
Fogo Creole memberOf Sotavento Creoles