Review of Calunga and the legacy of an African language in Brazil

Calunga is a currently disappearing and ill-described Afro-Brazilian speech variety which is mainly used in and around the town of Patrocínio in the state of Minas Gerais by an estimated couple of hundred of mostly older men, the so-called 'calungadores', i.e. speakers of Calunga. The main...

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Main Author: Tjerk Hagemeijer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2014-06-01
Series:Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
Online Access:http://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/65