Portuguese language in Africa the various Portuguese creoles that have developed there. These creole languages co-exist with Portuguese and, in the countries where they are spoken, form a continuum with the lexifying language. In Cape Verde, refers to a variety of Cape Verdean Creole which takes on various features of Portuguese and is a result of processes of decreolization in the archipelago. In São Tome e Principe, Santomense Portuguese is a variety of Portuguese strongly influenced by Forro in syntax and vocabulary. Since the lexicons of those languages are derived from Portuguese, even creole-speakers who do not speak Portuguese have a passive knowledge of
Folk etymology original French "chaise longue" ("long chair"), has come to be associated with the word "lounge". Rebracketing is a process of language change in which parts of a word that appear to be meaningful (such as *"ham" in "hamburger") are mistaken as elements of the word's etymology (in this case, the word "ham"). Rebracketing functions by reanalyzing the constituent parts of a word. For example, the Old French word "orenge" ("orange tree") comes from Arabic "an nāranj" ("the orange tree"), with the initial "n" of "nāranj" understood as part of the article. In back-formation a new word is created, often by