Sal Creole

E155067

Sal Creole is a regional variety of Cape Verdean Creole spoken primarily on the island of Sal in Cape Verde.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Sal Creole canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (28)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cape Verdean Creole variety
Portuguese-based creole
regional language variety
belongsToDialectGroup Barlavento Creoles
closelyRelatedTo Boa Vista Creole
Santo Antão Creole
São Vicente Creole
country Cape Verde
linked to: Cape Verde Islands
countryOfficialLanguageContext Cape Verde (where Cape Verdean Creole is widely used alongside Portuguese)
developedFrom Cape Verdean Creole
hasAlternativeName Criol de Sal
Kriol di Sal
hasLanguageCode none (no separate ISO 639-3 code)
influencedBy Portuguese
linked to: Portuguese language

West African languages
island Sal
languageFamily Portuguese Creole
Upper Guinea Creole
partOf Cape Verdean Creole
primaryLexifier Portuguese
linked to: Portuguese language
region Barlavento Islands
spokenBy inhabitants of Sal
spokenIn Cape Verde
linked to: Cape Verde Islands

Sal
status oral tradition dominant
usedFor everyday communication
informal contexts
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Cape Verdean Creole hasPart Sal Creole
Barlavento Creoles hasDialect Sal Creole