O cabo-verdiano visto por cabo-verdianos : ou contributo para uma leitura da situação linguística em Cabo Verde

Resumo

This article intends, on the one hand, to be a contribution to a reading of the linguistic situation in Cape Verde and, on the other, to give greater visibility here in Portugal to the debate which European, Brazilian and North American linguists are having on the dilemma which the present Cape Verde generation is experiencing. The problems are to be found in the question of the statute of Portuguese and of Cape Verdian, in the question of the ‘officialization’ of the language of the land and in the question of the ‘variant’ of creole to be chosen. The present sitution is one of bi-linguism and not of diglossia: either of the languages is spoken in all situations and in all places.