UpperGuineaCriouloLanguage
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Sigma KEE - UpperGuineaCriouloLanguage
UpperGuineaCriouloLanguage
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The UpperGuineaCriouloLanguage is a PortugueseBasedCreoleLanguage of GuineaBissau. SIL code: POV. ISO 639-2: cpp. Population: 159,000 first language speakers in Guinea-Bissau (1996) and 600,000 second language users (Chataigner ms.) Population total all countries: 361,500 or more. Region: Also Bijagos Islands. Also spoken in Gambia, Senegal, USA. Alternate names: PORTUGUESE CREOLE, KRIULO. Dialects: BISSAU-BOLAMA CREOLE, BAFATA CREOLE, CACHEU-ZIGUINCHOR CREOLE. Comments: The Senegal dialect is a little different, but they are intelligible to each other's speakers. Portuguese not well known. The lingua franca in much of Guinea-Bissau, more in the west than in the east. Trade language. Grammar. Bible in press (1997). Also spoken in: Senegal. (Language name: CRIOULO, UPPER GUINEA.) Population: 46,500 in Senegal (1998). Alternate names: PORTUGUESE CREOLE, KRIULO. Dialects: CACHEU-ZIGUINCHOR CREOLE. Comments: The Senegal dialect is a little different than Guinea-Bissau, with some Pidgin French vocabulary. Intelligible with Guinea-Bissau Creole. Literacy rate in first language: Below 1%. Christian. Bible in press (1997).(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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Instances | ContentBearingPhysical | Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition. |
| CreoleLanguage | A CreoleLanguage is a PidginLanguage that has developed and become the mother tongue for a community of people. This process is called 'creolization' and results in an expanded vocabulary and grammar structure that allow for communication as rich and complex as that of non-creole languages. While pidgins are regarded as reduced languages, creoles are considered expanded languages. That is, while pidgins develop to enable communication in relatively isolated domains, creoles allow for a full range of expressive possibilities on a par with more 'recognized' languages.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| Entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| HumanLanguage | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| Language | A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people. |
| LinguisticExpression | This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words. |
| Physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
| PortugueseBasedCreoleLanguage | A PortugueseBasedCreoleLanguage is a CreoleLanguage using a grammatical and core lexical foundation of the PortugueseLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| SpokenHumanLanguage | A SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form. |
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