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
Piri piri of the Congo or in Malawi, deriving from the various pronunciations of the word in different parts of Bantu-speaking Africa. is also the spelling used as a loanword in the Portuguese language, especially in the Portuguese-speaking Mozambican community. The spelling is common in English, e.g. in reference to African-style chili sauces. The "Oxford Dictionary of English" records as a foreign word meaning "a very hot sauce made with red ", and gives its ultimate origin as the word for "pepper" (presumably in the native-African sense) in the Ronga language of southern Mozambique. Plants are usually very bushy and grow in