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    Guinea-Bissau Creole, also known as Kiriol or Crioulo, is a creole language whose lexicon derives mostly from Portuguese. It is spoken in Guinea Bissau...
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    widely-spoken creoles influenced by Portuguese are Cape Verdean Creole, Guinea-Bissau Creole and Papiamento. Portuguese overseas exploration in the 15th and...
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    Guinea-Bissau (/ˌɡɪni bɪˈsaʊ/ ; Portuguese: Guiné-Bissau; Fula: 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, romanized: Gine-Bisaawo; Mandinka: ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫ ߓߌߛߊߥߏ߫ Gine-Bisawo)...
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    of Guineans spoke Guinea-Bissau Creole, in 1995 it was reported that Creole was spoken by 69% of the population, and in 2009 by 90.4%. Guinea-Bissau Creole...
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    Portuguese-based creole languages of the West African coasts, as it has many similarities with Cape Verdean Creole and Guinea-Bissau Creole.[page needed]...
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  • hardly penetrated Guinea-Bissau's music. Popular song lyrics, however, are almost always in Guinea-Bissau Creole, a Portuguese-based creole language. They...
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  • Guinea Creole can refer to: Upper Guinea Creoles (disambiguation) — Group of Creoles that include Guinea-Bissau Creole and Cape Verdean Creole Guinea-Bissau...
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  • includes the languages: Cape Verdean Creole, spoken in Cape Verde. Guinea-Bissau Creole, spoken in Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance, Senegal. Papiamento,...
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  • Creole or Cacheu-Ziguinchor Creole also Portuguis Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language that is considered a dialect of Guinea-Bissau Creole spoken...
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    Mozambique, and it is also a creole society, like Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe. Rather than Portuguese, it is Guinea-Bissau Creole which serves as the lingua...
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  • Upper Guinea Creoles can refer to: Guinea-Bissau CreoleCreole spoken in Guinea-Bissau Cape Verdean CreoleCreole spoken in Cape Verde Also related...
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  • Upper 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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  • it is called a creole language.[citation needed] Guinea-Bissau Creole is a Portuguese creole used as a lingua franca of Guinea-Bissau and Casamance, Senegal...
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    Africa from 1588 until 10 September 1974, when it gained independence as Guinea-Bissau. The Portuguese Crown commissioned its navigators to explore the Atlantic...
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  • Inclusive Alliance Platform – Terra Ranka (category 2023 establishments in Guinea-Bissau)
    Portuguese: Plataforma Aliança Inclusiva; Guinea-Bissau Creole: Terra Ranka, lit. 'the country starts') is a Bissau-Guinean political coalition formed for the...
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  • Balanta people (category Ethnic groups in Guinea-Bissau)
    Balanta (Guinea-Bissau Creole and Portuguese: balanta; French: balante; lit. “those who resist” in Mandinka) are an ethnic group found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea...
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  • (Zamboangueño Creole Spanish) Africa Upper Guinea Creoles Cape Verdean Creole: Vigorous use, Cape Verde Islands. Guinea-Bissau Creole: Vigorous use....
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  • diverged into two proto-creoles, one that was the base of Cape Verdean Creole, and another that was the base of the Guinea-Bissau Creole. Cross-referencing...
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    loanwords. Similar to Guinea-Bissau, although Portuguese is the only official language, a Portuguese-based creole known as Cape Verdean Creole is spoken by the...
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  • Bissau-Guinean Americans are Americans of Bissau-Guinean descent. As was the case with almost all current West African coastal countries (and some of Central...
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    co-exists in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Principe with Portuguese-based creoles (Upper Guinea and Gulf of Guinea Creoles), but Portuguese...
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  • groups in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé e Príncipe, Angola and Mozambique. The French-speaking Mauritian and Seychellois Creoles are both either African...
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  • noticed strong links with the Portuguese creole populations in São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. The language was first attested in an...
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    Amílcar Cabral (category Assassinated Bissau-Guinean politicians)
    (1924-09-12)12 September 1924 – (1973-01-20)20 January 1973) was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean agricultural engineer, political organizer, and diplomat...
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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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  • since 1958. Guinea may also refer to: Equatorial Guinea, a country in Central Africa, formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea Guinea-Bissau, a country in...
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    Language Badyara Banyum Balanta Bandial Bassari Bayot Bedik Guinea-Bissau Creole (Casamance Creole dialect) French Fula Gusilay Hassaniya Arabic Jola-Felupe...
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    Super Mama Djombo (category Guinea-Bissau stubs)
    Super Mama Djombo is a band from Guinea Bissau who sing in Guinea-Bissau Creole. The band was formed in the mid-1960s, at a Boy Scout camp, when the members...
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    that came from Guinea-Bissau Creole.[citation needed] There is a substantial body of literature in Creole, especially in the Santiago Creole and the São...
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    Eneida Marta (category Bissau-Guinean musicians)
    Eneida Marta is a singer from Guinea-Bissau who sings in Portuguese and Guinea-Bissau Creole. She has toured internationally since the release of her first...
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