Upper Guinea Crioulo
Upper Guinea Crioulo is an Indo-European language spoken in United States, Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau, by about 500 thousand people.
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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, Senegal and The Gambia. It is also called by its native speakers as guinensi, kriyol, or portuguis.
Guinea-Bissau Creole is spoken as a native tongue by 250,000 Bissau-Guineans and as a second language by 1,000,000.
A variant of Guinea-Bissau Creole is also spoken in southern Senegal, mainly in the region of Casamance, a former Portuguese colony, which is known as Portuguis Creole or Casamance Creole. Creole is the majority language of the inhabitants of the Casamance region and is used as a language of commerce.
From Wikipedia · Guinea-Bissau Creole · CC BY-SA 4.0
Written down
Tudu pecadur padidu livre, ninguin ca más ninguin, tudu djusta, tudu tem mesmu diritu. Tudu quin qui padidu, tem si roçon, cu si manera di pensa. Na metadi di utrus I díbidi fassi cussas cu ermondadi.
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).
Words in Upper Guinea Crioulo
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| child | fidju | |
| woman | minjer | |
| ear | oredja | |
| water | yagu | |
| fire | fugu | |
| milk | liti |
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Elsewhere
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