Jazyková situace a současné postavení kreolštiny na Kapverdských ostrovech

Abstract

The article describes and analyses the linguistic situation and current status of Creole in the Cape Verde Islands. The focus is partly on the demography and the history, but mainly on the linguistic politics of this territory and the position of Creole in Cape Verdean society. Creole is the mother tongue of practically the entire Cape Verdean population and the language is used in all informal oral and written communication. The majority of the local population wish Creole to be used in schools and in formal written communication, desiring that the country will move definitively from diglossia to bilingualism.

Keywords

• sociolinguistics
• language politics
• cape verde islands
• cape verdean creole
• portuguese