It was not until the early 20th century when Portugal’s attempt to make Angola the kind of colony of settlement that Brazil had been increased the number of European native speakers of Portuguese to the extent that a substantial portion of Angola’s Bantu speakers needed AVP to get along. AVP was first described in print by Schuchardt (1888), but its use was long confined to certain social groups such as Afro-Europeans in coastal cities and later slavers in certain parts of the interior. Interpreting the precise nature of this contact from the time the Portuguese arrived in what is now Angola in 1482 with the perspective of recent developments in contact linguistics has made it clear that the mixed language variety that emerged was neither a pidgin nor a creole but rather a partially restructured variety of Portuguese that developed out of a continuum of learners’ interlanguages that eventually acquired norms and began to reapproach European Portuguese through secondary leveling. This study examines the linguistic structure of the Angolan Vernacular Portuguese (AVP) that developed in Dundo in the northeastern province of Lunda Norte by systematically comparing the structure of its noun phrase and verb phrase to that of European Portuguese and the Bantu languages with which it has been in contact. A vernacular variety of Portuguese with a structure clearly distinct from that of European Portuguese has developed in Angola.

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