Guinean Portuguese

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.Also, code switching occurs between the Creole and standard Portuguese and/or native African languages in informal speech.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'.
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)
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