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Language code: cpp

Technical information about ISO 639 language code cpp

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The table below provides technical details for the Portuguese-based creoles and pidgins language, designated by the cpp code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

cpp

Name

Portuguese-based creoles and pidgins

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Cape Verdean CreoleGuinea-Bissau CreolePapiamentuMalaccan Creole Portuguese (Kristang)Macanese (Patuá)São Tomense (Forro)AngolarPrincipenseKorlai Creole PortugueseSri Lanka Portuguese Creole
Related languages
PortugueseSpanish-based ChavacanoHaitian CreoleFrenchEnglish-based creoles such as Tok Pisin
Key facts
Portuguese-based creoles emerged worldwide between the 15th and 19th centuries alongside Portuguese explorationTheir vocabularies are largely Portuguese, but grammar and phonology draw heavily from African, Asian and Amerindian substrate languagesPapiamentu is the only Portuguese-lexifier creole spoken by the majority of a territory’s population todaySeveral varieties, like Sri Lanka Portuguese and Macanese, are critically endangered with only a few hundred elderly speakersAlthough they share a lexifier, mutual intelligibility among the different creoles is generally low
Sample phrase

Olá, kumé ki bu sta?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Portuguese-based creoles and pidgins language, identified by the code cpp, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic-like' by its type.

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