Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures and to reflections on entrepreneurship, regarded as one of the drivers of innovation in Portuguese culture. In 2011, CLEPUL changed its name to Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, while keeping its acronym, in order to preserve its history while embracing its new scientific landscape. In 2014, CLEPUL is home for 536 researchers and 110 integrated members, organized in 7 Research Groups: Each Research Group has its associated Pole in other universities, including in Brazil and Angola, gathering experts in Literary science, Linguistics, History, Art History, Cultural studies,
Garifuna language Garifuna language Garifuna (Karif) is a minority language widely spoken in villages of Garifuna people in the western part of the northern coast of Central America. It is a member of the Arawakan language family but an atypical one since it is spoken outside the Arawakan language area, which is otherwise now confined to the northern parts of South America, and because it contains an unusually high number of loanwords, from both Carib languages and a number of European languages because of an extremely tumultuous past involving warfare, migration and colonization. The language was once confined to the Antillean islands