Sotavento Creoles

Sotavento Creoles is the name given to the group of Cape Verdean Creoles spoken in the Sotavento islands of Cape Verdean Islands.

Some characteristics of Sotavento Creoles:
*The imperfective aspect of the past is formed joining the particle for the past "~ba" to the verb: "tâ" + V+"ba".
*The personal pronoun for the second person of the plural is "nhôs".
*The subject form of the personal pronoun for the first person of the singular is represented by a nasalization. Ex.: "m’ andâ" pronounced /ƞ ɐ̃ˈdɐ/ instead of /m ɐ̃ˈdɐ/ “I have walked”, "m’ stâ tâ sintí" pronounced /ƞ stɐ tɐ sĩˈti/ instead of /m stɐ tɐ sĩˈti/ “I am feeling”, "m’ labába" pronounced /ƞ lɐˈbabɐ/ instead of /m lɐˈbabɐ/ “I had washed”.
*The object form of the personal pronoun for the first person of the singular disappears but nasalizes the preceding vowel. Ex.: "lebâ-m’" pronounced /leˈbɐ̃/ instead of /leˈbɐm/ “take me”, "metê-m’" pronounced /meˈtẽ/ instead of /meˈtem/ “put me”, "cudí-m’" pronounced /kuˈdĩ/ instead of /kuˈdim/ “answer me”, "compô-m’" pronounced /kõˈpõ/ instead of /kõˈpom/ “fix me”, "bumbú-m’" pronounced /bũˈbũ/ instead of /bũˈbum/ “put me on the back”.