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Guinean Portuguese

Guinean Portuguese (Portuguese: Português Guineense) is the variety of Portuguese spoken in Guinea-Bissau, where it is the official language.

Guinean Portuguese
português guineense, português da Guiné
Native toGuinea-Bissau
Native speakers
290,000 (2015)[1]
Official status
Regulated byAcademia de Letras e Artes da Guiné-Bissau
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone
IETFpt-GW
A sign at the local Department of Education and Training of Bolama, which was rehabilitated with the cooperation from the Government of East Timor
Newspapers of Guinea-Bissau (2017)

Prevalence edit

Guinea-Bissau is unique among the African member states of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) in that it is both highly diverse linguistically, like Angola and 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 franca and the vehicle of national identity spoken as both a first and second language. Guinea-Bissau Creole is the dominant language of trade, informal literature and entertainment; Standard Portuguese is the official language of the country, which is exclusively used in news media, parliament, public services and educational programming. Thus Portuguese, for those who speak it, is often a third language. Also, code switching occurs between the Creole and standard Portuguese and/or native African languages in informal speech. The native Portuguese speakers in Guinea-Bissau are mostly white Guineans. The reduction of native Portuguese speakers is caused by leave of most white Guineans to Portugal or Brazil and by civil war that affected education. The majority of the approximately 15% of Guineans who speak Portuguese are concentrated in an area of the capital city, Bissau, known as 'a Praça'. The variety of Guinea Bissau Creole spoken in the capital, Kriol di Bissau, is known for being more Lusitanized, borrowing words more freely from Portuguese.

The standard phonology is European Portuguese. But for second- and third-language speakers, it is affected by phonologies of native languages and resembles Indian Portuguese.

History edit

Portuguese was used as a communication between Portuguese settlers and different black tribes (most are Fulas, Mandingos, Manjacos, and Balante) before the nation became a permanent Portuguese overseas territory. The number of Portuguese speakers was large during Portuguese rule, although mestiços and most blacks speak a Portuguese Creole called Guinea-Bissau Creole, which is a more widely spoken lingua franca of the nation. After independence, when most Portuguese left, Portuguese speakers were reduced to less than 10% because of civil war that affected education, although it remained the official language of the country.

Language Planning edit

When the CPLP was founded in 1996, it helped Guinea-Bissau in education aside from peace talks there. Many Portuguese, Brazilian, and PALOP (mostly Angolan) teachers entered to increase Portuguese fluency among Bissau-Guineans. In 2005, in order to increase Portuguese fluency, there was an agreement between Guinean officials and Instituto Camões, which already had a center in Bissau, to open centers in other towns of the country: Canchungo, Ongoré, Mansôa, Bafatá, Gabú, Buba, Catió, Bolama, Bubaque, and Quinhamel. The percentage of Portuguese speakers increased to 14%.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Portuguese (Guinea-Bissau) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

External links edit

  • Cátedra "Português Língua Segunda e Estrangeira" — Bibliografia sobre o Português de Guiné Bissau (in Portuguese). Cátedra de Português Língua Segunda e Estrangeira. — Bibliography on Guinean Portuguese
  • O Português na África – Guiné-Bissau (in Portuguese)

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