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Santiago Creole is the name given to the Cape Verdean Creole spoken mainly on Santiago Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Sotavento Creoles branch of Creole. Santiago Creole is the linguistic entity of the most important island of Cape Verde, and the linguistic entity of the capital of the country, Praia, situated in the same island. ==Characteristics== Besides the main characteristics of Sotavento Creoles the Santiago Creole has also the following ones: * The progressive aspect of the present is formed by putting ''sâ tâ'' before the verbs: ''sâ tâ'' + V. * In the verbs, the stress goes back to the before the last syllable in the forms for the present. Ex.: ''cánta'' instead of ''cantâ'' “to sing”, ''mêxe'' or ''mêxi'' instead of ''mexê'' “to move”, ''pârti'' instead of ''partí'' “to leave”, ''cômpo'' or ''cômpu'' instead of ''compô'' “to fix”, ''búmbu'' instead of ''bumbú'' “to put on the back”. * Some speakers pronounce the voiced sibilants as voiceless. Ex. ''cássa'' instead of ''cása'' “house”, ''ôxi'' instead of ''ôji'' “today”. * Some speakers pronounce the sound as . Ex.: ''cáru'' instead of ''cárru'' “car”, ''féru'' instead of ''férru'' “iron”, ''curâl'' instead of ''currál'' “corral”. * The sound is slightly aspirated . * The sounds , and are pronounced as alveolars , , and not as dentals , , * The nasal diphthongs are de-nasalized. Ex.: ''mâi'' instead of ''mãi'' “mother”, ''nâu'' instead of ''nãu'' “no”. * The stressed sound is pronounced when it is before the sound at the end of words. Ex.: ''curâl'' instead of ''currál'' “corral”, ''mâl'' instead of ''mál'' “bad”, ''Tarrafâl'' instead of ''Tarrafál'' “Tarrafal” (place name). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Santiago Creole」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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