O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde
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O dialecto crioulo de Cabo Verde (Portuguese
meaning "The Creole Dialect from Cape Verde") is a Capeverdean
book
published in 1957 by Baltasar Lopes da Silva
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The book is a description of the Cape Verdean Creole including the grammar, the phonology and the lexicon. In spite of not being up to date, it is still one of the best references for Cape Verdean Creole.
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
meaning "The Creole Dialect from Cape Verde") is a Capeverdean
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
book
Book
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published in 1957 by Baltasar Lopes da Silva
Baltasar Lopes da Silva
Baltasar Lopes da Silva was a writer, poet and linguist from Cape Verde, who wrote in both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole. With Manuel Lopes and Jorge Barbosa, he was the founder of Claridade. In 1947 he published Chiquinho, considered the greatest Cape Verdean novel...
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The book is a description of the Cape Verdean Creole including the grammar, the phonology and the lexicon. In spite of not being up to date, it is still one of the best references for Cape Verdean Creole.