• Cape Verdean Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken on the islands of Cape Verde. It is the native creole language of virtually all Cape...
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    Cape Verdeans, also called Cabo Verdeans (Portuguese: cabo-verdiano), are a people native to Cape Verde, an island nation in West Africa consisting of...
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    most widely-spoken creoles influenced by Portuguese are Cape Verdean Creole, Guinea-Bissau Creole and Papiamento. Portuguese overseas exploration in the...
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    Cape Verde is known internationally for morna, a form of folk music usually sung in the Cape Verdean Creole, accompanied by clarinet, violin, guitar and...
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    rich repertoire of literature and songs in Cape Verdean Creole. In religion, the majority of Cape Verdeans follow Catholic Christianity. There are some...
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  • Cape Verdean Americans are an ethnic group of Americans whose ancestors were Cape Verdean. In 2010, the American Community Survey stated that there were...
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    Portuguese creole languages that developed in the West African coasts, as it has many similarities with Cape Verdean Creole and Guinea-Bissau Creole. There...
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    and radio. Cape Verdean Creole (Kriolu) is used colloquially throughout Cape Verde and is the mother tongue of virtually all Cape Verdeans. The national...
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    Cape Verdean Portuguese (Portuguese: Português cabo-verdiano) is the variety of Portuguese spoken in Cape Verde. While Cape Verdean Creole is the mother...
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    Morna (music) (category Cape Verdean Creole)
    both Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole: [ˈmɔɾnɐ]) is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde. Lyrics are usually in Cape Verdean Creole, and instrumentation...
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    became an icon of Cape Verdean literature. Cape Verdean born Italian Sergio Frusoni published poems and short stories in Cape Verdean creole in that time....
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  • from Cape Verde, or of Cape Verdean descent: Cape Verdeans Cape Verdean Americans Demographics of Cape Verde List of Cape Verdeans Cape Verdean Creole, a...
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  • to Cape Verde. The words “Cabo Verdean” are not always used to express the same notions. They can be used to express: People who were born in Cape Verde...
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  • Sodade (category Music of Cape Verde)
    Cesária Évora on her 1992 album Miss Perfumado. The name is the Cape Verdean Creole variant of the Portuguese term saudade. The authorship of the song...
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    Cesária Évora (category 20th-century Cape Verdean singers)
    December 2011) was a Cape Verdean singer known for singing morna, a genre of music from Cape Verde, in her native Cape Verdean Creole. Her songs were often...
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    Lusophone nations.[citation needed] Cape Verdeans have written both in the Portuguese language and in Cape Verdean Creole. Eugénio Tavares was the first author...
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    Portuguese creoles are also spoken: Forro, Angolar and Principense. Cape Verdean Creole is spoken by 8.5% and it is also a Portuguese creole. French (6...
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  • Maria de Barros (category 21st-century Cape Verdean women singers)
    songs in several languages, including her native Portuguese and Cape Verdean Creole (Kriolu), French, Spanish, German, and English. She went on tour...
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    for many songs and compositions. "Sodade" (saudade in Cape Verdean Creole) is the title of the Cape Verde singer Cesária Évora's most famous song. Étienne...
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  • Guinea and Cape Verde: Cape Verdean Creole, spoken on the islands of Cape Verde Guinea-Bissau Creole, spoken in Guinea-Bissau São Vicente Creole, spoken...
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  • Boa Vista Creole is the name given to the variant of Cape Verdean Creole spoken mainly in the Boa Vista Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Barlavento...
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  • formal forms. Perhaps one of the oldest creoles in existence, the Kriolu/Crioulu/Kabuverdianu/Caboverdiano of the Cape Verde islands has existed alongside...
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  • (August 10, 1901 – May 29, 1975) was a poet and promoter of the Cape Verdean Creole language. Sérgio was born in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente...
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    Cachupa (category Cape Verdean cuisine)
    (Portuguese pronunciation: [kɐˈʃupɐ], Cape Verdean Creole Katxupa IPA: [kɐˈʧupɐ]) is a famous dish from the Cape Verde islands, West Africa. It is a slow-cooked...
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  • Santiago Creole is the name given to the Cape Verdean Creole spoken mainly on Santiago Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Sotavento Creoles branch...
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    Cameroon; Cape Verdean Creole in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau Creole in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, all from Portuguese; Seychellois Creole in the Seychelles...
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  • Coladeira (category Music of Cape Verde)
    (Portuguese pronunciation: [kulɐˈðɐjɾɐ]; Cape Verdean Creole: koladera, [kolɐˈdeɾɐ]) is a music genre from the Cape Verde islands in the central Atlantic...
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    Baltasar Lopes da Silva (category Writers in Cape Verdean Creole)
    1989) 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...
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  • Mayan dialect), Malagasy (infrequently used), Tol language, and Cape Verdean Creole, in all four cases representing a velar [ŋ]. It is also used in the...
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  • In 1995, it was estimated that there were 50,000 people of Cape Verdean descent or national origin in Portugal. By 2000, this estimation rose to 83,000...
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