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
Kutsche Afrikaans Coetzee. The related German term "Kutscher" refers to someone who drives a coach, "viz.", a coachman; however, according to Hans Bahlow, it can also be a Germanized name, "Kutscher(a)", derived from the Czech Kučera, meaning "curly." People with variants of the surname with either etymology include: Kutsche Kutsche (), with numerous other spellings, is a German surname with several etymologies, including one Hungarian and several Slavic. According to the onomast Hans Bahlow, the name "Kutsche"/"Kutscha" with different spellings, when found in the historical east (central) German linguistic area (such as Saxony, Bohemia and Silesia), is "clearly of Slavic origin,