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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Brazil > Cafundo Creole

Cafundo Creole

A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3: ccd

Population 40 (1978 M. Gnerre, U. Estadual de Campinas).
Region Cafundo, 150 miles from São Paulo.
Classification Creole, Portuguese based
Language use Speakers are fluent in Portuguese.
Comments Bantu lexicon in Portuguese morphological and syntactic framework. The creole is considered a secret language. A similar creole has been recently discovered in Minas Gerais. Nearly extinct.