Portuguese Creole

: This article is primarily about the languages. See also a summary in the context of the other creole people.

Portuguese anti-Creole

In Brazil there is very little left of Portuguese Creoles, but there is one academic study for a Masters Degree that points to one particularly. A rural African community from Cafundó, 150km from São Paulo (city), uses a secret language, spoken by some (40 in 1978). The population is bilingual with Portuguese. It was first thought to be an African language but later study (1986) by Carlos Vogt and Peter Fry indicated that it could be an Anti-Creole, as it presents similarities with the Caipira variety (the Portuguese dialect of Brasil's São Paulo countryside, South of Minas Gerais and North of Paraná). Cafundó possesses Portuguese morphological and syntactic framework with some Bantu lexicon, the opposite of a Creole language.

Related Topics:
São Paulo (city) - Anti-Creole

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