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Revision as of 15:58, 23 August 2015
Cafundó | |
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Cupópia | |
Native to | Brazil |
Region | Cafundó, São Paulo |
Native speakers | (40 cited 1978)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ccd |
Glottolog | cafu1238 |
Cafundó (Portuguese pronunciation: [kafũˈdɔ]), or Cupópia ([kuˈpɔpjɐ]), is a 'secret' language spoken in the village of Cafundó, São Paulo (Brazil). The language is structurally similar to Portuguese, with a large number of Bantu words in its lexicon.
Cafundó was at first thought to be an African language, but a later study (1986) by Carlos Vogt and Peter Fry showed that its grammatical and morphological structure are those of Portuguese, specifically the rural hinterland Southeastern (caipira) variety; whereas its lexicon is heavily drawn from some Bantu language. It is therefore not a creole language, as it is sometimes considered.
Speakers
The speaker community is very small (40 people in 1978). They live in a rural area, 150 km from the city of São Paulo, and are mostly of African descent. They also speak Portuguese, and use cafundó as a "secret" home language. A cafundó speaker and an African-born Bantu (Angolan or Mozambican) speaking Portuguese and Bantu languages can understand each other, because Angolan and Mozambican dialects also have its particular Bantu-derived characteristics.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Cafundó at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Peter Fry and Carlos Vogt (1996) Cafundó, a África no Brasil: Linguagem e Sociedade. São Paulo, Companhia das Letras. ISBN 85-7164-585-X.
- Sílvio Vieira de Andrade Filho (2000) Um Estudo Sociolingüístico das Comunidades Negras do Cafundó, do Antigo Caxambu e de seus Arredores. Secretaria da Educação e Cultura of Sorocaba. Also Ph.D. diss., University of São Paulo. ISBN 85-89017-01-X. Available on-line.
External links
- Web page on Cafundó (in Portuguese)
- Explanation and examples of the Cafundó language (in Portuguese)