Fogo Creole

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Fogo Creole is the name given to the variant of Cape Verdean Creole spoken mainly in the Fogo of Cape Verde. It has around 50,000[ citation needed ] speakers or nearly 5% of Cape Verdean Creole speakers including the diaspora's second language speakers. It belongs to the Sotavento Creoles branch. The rankings of this form of Cape Verdean Creole is fourth after Santo Antão and ahead of Sal.

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Characteristics

Besides the main characteristics of Sotavento Creoles the Fogo Creole has also the following ones:

Vocabulary

Grammar

Phonology

Alphabet

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