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 ⓘ