Cafundo Creole
Facts
- Language: Cafundo Creole
- Alternate names:
- Language code: ccd
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Southwestern Shifted Romance, West Ibero-Romance, Galician Romance, Macro-Portuguese, Brazil-Portugal Portuguese
- Creole language
- Number of speakers: 40
- Script:
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Introduction
Cafundó, or Cupópia, is an argot spoken in the Brazilian village of Cafundó, São Paulo, now a suburb of Salto de Pirapora. The language is structurally similar to Portuguese, with many Bantu words in its lexicon.
The Cafundo Creole Verb
Cafundo Creole has the following tenses:
- Preterite perfect: formed like preterite in Portuguese
- Present: formed like present in Portuguese
- Future: formed with the auxiliary ir and the verb in greund.