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'''Brava Creole''' is the name given to the variant of [[Cape Verdean Creole]] spoken mainly in the [[Brava, Cape Verde|Brava Island]] of [[Cape Verde]]. It belongs to the [[Sotavento Creoles]] branch. The speakers of this form of Capeverdean Creole are 8,000 (1.36% of the national population){{Fact|date=April 2007}}. One of the least spoken being seventh place and one of the firsts to have written literature, in which [[Eugénio Tavares]] wrote some of his poems.

==Characteristics==
Besides the main characteristics of [[Sotavento Creoles]] the Brava Creole has also the following ones:
* The progressive aspect of the present is formed by putting ''stâ'' before the verbs: '''''stâ'' + V'''.
* The sound that originates from Portuguese {{IPA|/ɐ̃w/}} (written ''ão'') is {{IPA|/ɐ̃/}} rather than {{IPA|/õ/}}. For example, ''coraçã'' {{IPA|/koɾɐˈsɐ̃/}}, not ''coraçõ'' {{IPA|/koɾɐˈsõ/}} “heart”; ''mã'' {{IPA|/ˈmɐ̃/}}, not ''mõ'' {{IPA|/ˈmõ/}} “hand”; ''razã'' {{IPA|/ʀɐˈzɐ̃/}}, not ''razõ'' {{IPA|/ʀɐˈzõ/}} “reason”.

==Vocabulary==
{{main|Cape Verdean Creole#Vocabulary}}

==Grammar==
{{main|Cape Verdean Creole#Grammar}}

==Phonology==
{{main|Cape Verdean Creole#Phonology}}

==Alphabet==
{{main|Cape Verdean Creole#Writing_system}}

==References==
{{Main|Cape Verdean Creole#References}}

==Further reading==
* The Creole dialect of the island of Brava (Meintel, Deirdre, 1975) in ''Miscelânea luso-africana'' coord. Marius F. Valkhoff
* ''The syntax of Cape Verdean Creole. The Sotavento Varieties'' ([[Marlyse Baptista|Baptista, Marlyse]], 2002)
* ''Crioulo de Cabo Verde — Situação Linguística da Zona do Barlavento'' (Delgado, Carlos Alberto; Praia: IBNL, 2008)

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050206184956/http://www.bcv.cv/_conteudo/dinheiro/nota/1999/2000.htm A short poem in Brava Crioulo] on a Cape Verde banknote.
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[[Category:Brava, Cape Verde]]


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