Guinea-Bissau Creole

Guinea-Bissau Creole is a creole or pidgin, spoken in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal. Wikidata counts about 500,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “lingua franca of Guinea Bissau”.

5 · DevelopingLatn 500,000

Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: pov
Glottocode: uppe1455
Family: unclassified
EGIDS: 5 Developing
Wikipedia: 24 language editions

—first-language speakers

—second-language speakers

2countries

1scripts

—levels in the tree

5EGIDS level

Facts

Name	Guinea-Bissau Creole
Also called	Upper Guinea Crioulo, Upper Guinea Creole, Kriol, Guinea-Bissau Creole Portuguese, Guinea-Bissau Kriyol
All speakers	500,000
Written in	Latin script
Kind	creole or pidgin

Vitality

EGIDS 5 Developing5

Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.

Other languages at this level

where it is spoken

Countries

Guinea-Bissau21 languages in the index Senegal34 languages in the index

Also spoken in Guinea-Bissau

porPortugueseIndo-European · 227.3 m1 · National fucPulaarNiger–Congo · 4.5 m5 · Developing mnkMandinkaNiger–Congo · 1.4 m5 · Developing snkSoninkeNiger–Congo · 1.1 m5 · Developing bscBassariNiger–Congo · 33,6005 · Developing manMandingNiger–Congo bjgBijagoNiger–Congo6a · Vigorous knfMankanyaNiger–Congo5 · Developing pbpBadyaraNiger–Congo6a · Vigorous bifBiafadaNiger–Congo6a · Vigorous