Portuguese-based creole languages used to distinguish locally born black people of African descent from those who had been brought from Africa as slaves. In time, however, this generic sense was lost, and the word "crioulo" or its derivatives (like "Creole" and its equivalents in other languages) became the name of several specific Upper Guinean communities and their languages: the Guinean people and their Kriol language, Cape Verdean people and their Kriolu language, all of which still today have very vigorous use, suppressing the importance of official standard Portuguese. The oldest Portuguese-based creole are the so-called "crioulos" of Upper Guinea, born around the Portuguese
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