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African Portuguese (Português Africano in Portuguese) is a term for the varieties of Portuguese spoken in Africa. Portuguese is a post-colonial language in Africa and one of the official languages of the African Union. What makes these varieties of Portuguese logical to group together separately from those of Brazil and Portugal is their common origin in Subsaharan Africa's colonial history and the fact that African Portuguese co-exists with Portuguese-based creoles (Upper Guinea and Gulf of Ginuea Creoles) and autochtonous African languages (Bantu and Niger-Congo families). Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...
Anthem Let Us All Unite and Celebrate Together [1] Administrative Centre Largest city Cairo, Egypt Working languages Arabic English French Portuguese Swahili Membership 53 African states Leaders - Chairman John Kufuor - Alpha Oumar Konaré Establishment - as the OAU May 25, 1963 - as the African Union July 9, 2002 Area - Total 29...
Map showing the approximate distribution of Bantu (light brown) vs. ...
Map showing the distribution of Niger-Congo languages The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the worlds major language families, and Africas largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. ...
African Portuguese experiences pressure and possibly competition from French and English. Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau and Sāo Tomé e Principe are all member-states of La Francophonie and Mozambique is a member-state of the Commonwealth of Nations. Look up English, english in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Motto Unidade, Luta, Progresso(Portuguese) Unity, Struggle, Progress Anthem Esta é a Nossa Pátria Bem Amada(Portuguese) Capital (and largest city) Bissau1 Official languages Portuguese Government Republic - President João Bernardo Vieira - Prime Minister Martinho Ndafa Kabi Independence from Portugal - Declared September 24, 1973 - Recognised September 10, 1974 Area - Total...
La Francophonie (formally lOrganisation internationale de la Francophonie), a French language term coined in 1880 by French geographer Onésime Reclus, brother of Elisée Reclus, to designate the community of people and countries using French, is an international organisation of and governments. ...
The Commonwealth of Nations as of 2006 Headquarters Marlborough House, London, UK Official languages English Membership 53 sovereign states Leaders - Queen Elizabeth II - Secretary-General Don McKinnon (since 1 April 2000) Establishment - Balfour Declaration 18 November 1926 - Statute of Westminster 11 December 1931 - London Declaration 28 April 1949 Area - Total...
Geographic Distribution
The nation-states with Portuguese as an official language are reffered to by the acronym PALOP (Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa)and include the following: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé e Principe. In these Counries African Portuguese is a primarily urban language having a reduced presence in rural areas. Anthem Independência total Capital (and largest city) São Tomé Official languages Portuguese Government Republic - President Fradique de Menezes - Prime Minister Tomé Vera Cruz Independence from Portugal - Date 12 July 1975 Area - Total 964 km² (183rd) 372 sq mi - Water (%) 0 Population - 2005 estimate 157,000 (188th) - Density 171...
South Africa also has approximately 1,000,000 speakers of Portuguese who are largely white Angolans and Mozambicans who emigrated after idependence in the late '70s. The civil wars in Angola and Mozambique have resulted in more recent migrations of refugees (some of whom speak Portuguese) to neighbouring countries such as Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and South Africa.
Senegal has it's own lusophone connection with a significant community of Cape verdeans in Dakar and speakers of Guinea-Bissau Creole in its southern region of Casamance. Kriol (crioulo in Portuguese) is a language spoken by 60% of the population of Guinea-Bissau, where it is the lingua franca, and also in Senegal. ...
Equatorial Guinea was at one point a Portuguese Colony and is home to a Portuguese-based creole and is an observer nation in the CPLP.
The Role of African Portuguese As an official language, African Portuguese serves in the realms of administration, education, law, poilitics and media. Given the existing linguistic diversty of the PALOPs, African Portuguese also serves the purpose of [[lingua franca]] allowing communication between fellow citizens of different ethno-linguistic backgrounds. It is in this way that each country has started to develop a national culture.
Additionally, Portuguese connects the PALOP countries to eachother, to Portugual, East Timor and, most interestingly, to fellow former colony Brazil which pursues its own relations with PALOP independently of Portugal. As the number of L1 and L2 speakers of Portuguese continues to increase, so too will the role of the language grow and change.
Media BBC Para Africa, RFI and RDP-Africa are all media outlets that make a point of presenting Portuguese as an African language aside form it's origins in Europe. Lusophone Africa forms an obvious market for Brazilian media and thus African speakers of Portuguese have available to them an alternative to Standard European Portuguese. Music is one way in which the linguistic profiles of PALOP have increased. Many recording artists from PALOP, in addition to singing in their maternal languages, sing in Portuguese to one degree or another. The success of these artisis in the World Music industry increases international awareness of African Portuguese. RFI can mean: Radio Frequency Interference or electromagnetic interference Radio France Internationale Request For Information, a business process Requirement for Improvement, a citation from Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Return From Interrupt, a PowerPC machine instruction Rete Ferroviaria Italiana Rifle Factory, Ishapore- an arms manufacturing facility located at...
Influence of African Portuguese As a result of immigration to Portugal various varieties of African Portuguese have influenced contemporary speech in Portugal. In the '70s it came from White people from the former colonies (reffered to as Retornados). More recent immigration from the PALOPs has resulted in a visible demographic of black and brown Portuguese who have strong links to Lusophone Africa.
In Brazil, many of the indigenous African languages that influence African Portuguese had the same influence historically on the formation of Brazilian Portugese during the colonial period especially lexically.
Creoles Any discussion of the role of the Portuguese language in Africa must take into account the various Portuguese Creoles that have developed there. These new languages co-exist with Portuguese and, in the countries where they are spoken, form a continuum with the lexifying language. In Cape Verde, Crioulo levinho reffers to a variety of Cape verdean creole which takes on various features of Portuguese and is a result of bilingualism in that country. The term bilingualism (from bi meaning two and lingua meaning language) can refer to rather different phenomena. ...
See Also Angolan Portuguese (Português Angolano in Portuguese) is a variety of Portuguese used mostly in Angola. ...
The Capeverdean Crioulo is a dialect continuum spoken on the islands of Cape Verde, whose extremes lie at the islands of Santiago and that of Santo Antão. ...
Guinean Portuguese (Portuguese: Guineense Português) is a Portuguese dialect spoken in Guinea-Bissau. ...
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São Tomean Portuguese is a dialect of the Portuguese language spoken in São Tomé and PrÃncipe. ...
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