Cape Verde - Cap-Vert - Cabo Verde (CV)

1. Language information / Données sur les langues

1.1 Languages spoken / Langues parlées :

a) Official / Officielle(s) :

Portuguese (de jure) with Cape Verde Creole (Kabuverdianu) also mentioned in the constiturion. (Aménagement linguistique)

b) National, indigenous / Nationale(s), indigène(s) :

Almost all the population speaks Cape Verde Creole (Kabuverdianu) as their mother tongue.

Ethnologue has a list at http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=CV

c) Relevant pages in the Major Languages section of this report / Pages appropriées dans la section de ce rapport sur les Langues principales :

None. (Should Kabuverdianu be added?)

1.2 Language policy / Politique de langue

a) Laws/legislation / Lois/législation :

The site L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde has a page on Cape Verde at http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/afrique/Cap-Vert.htm

b) Agencies / Agences :

Ministère de l'Education et de la Culture
Cidade de Praia
REPUBLICA DE CABO VERDE
(Source: UNESCO, 1985)

c) Languages in education/literacy / Langues dans l'éducation/l'alphabétisation :

According to Ethnologue, Portuguese is the language of formal education.

UNDP (2006) gives a literacy figure (without reference to which language[s]) of: 76%

1.3 Writing in national/indigenous languages / Ecriture en langues nationales/indigènes

a) Orthographies / Orthographes :

"The has been some progress in the islands themselves, e.g. the founding of the Comissão Nacional para a Língua Cabo-Verdiana and the Forum de Alfabetização Bilingue in 1989 and of the Comissão Nacional para a Padronização do Alfabeto in 1993. The ALUPEC or Alfabeto Unificado para a Escrita do Crioulo, a compromise between Veiga's original phonematic orthography and more conservative writing systems, is still awaiting ratification by the Cape Verdean Parliament while it is already being used in bilingual education programs in Massachusetts." (Bartens, 1999)

"In 2005, the ALUPEC was recognized by the Cape Verdean government as a viable system for writing the Cape Verdean Creole, being until now the only one officially recognized by the same government. In spite of being the only one officially recognized, the same law allows the usage of alternative writing models, “as long they are presented in a systematized and scientific way”." (Wikipedia)

ALUPEC letters: A B D DJ E F G H I J K L LH M N NH N̈ O P R S T TX U V X Z (the only extended letter is <n̈> n with umlaut)

b) Print publications / Editions imprimées :

UNESCO (1985) reported the following periodicals (name, frequency of publication, circulation, language). Updated information is needed:

• Voz Di Povo, weekly, 4,000, Portuguese/Cap-verdien
• Raizes, quarterly, 1,500, Portuguese/Cap-verdien
• Terra Nova, monthly, 2,100, Portuguese/Cap-verdien

1.4 Other comments / Autre commentaire

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2. ICT situation / Situation des TIC

2.1 Infrastructure / Infrastructure

a) Telephones / Téléphones :

• Fixed lines:
  • Telephone mainlines: 143 per 1000 people (APC)
  • Telephones - main lines in use: 71,400 (2005) (CIA)
• Mobile subscriptions:
  • 53,000 (12.1 per 100 people) (ITU 2004 cited in Vodafone 2005)
  • Telephones - mobile cellular: 81,700 (2005) (CIA)
  • GSM companies & coverage : http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_cv.shtml

b) Radio stations / Stations de radio :

Radio broadcast stations: AM 0, FM 22 (plus 12 repeaters), shortwave 0 (2002) (CIA)

c) Connectivity / Connectivité :

• International internet bandwidth / Bande passante internationale d'internet :
• ISPs / FSI : 1 (2002) (Wikipedia)
• Internet hosts
  • According to CIA, 234 (2006)
  • According to ISC, 4 (on .cv domain) (2007)
• Geographic coverage / Couverture géographique :

2.2 Computer & internet access / Accès aux ordinateurs et à l'internet

a) Computers & points of access / Ordinateurs et lieux d'accès :

• Number of computers / Nombre d'ordinateurs: 68.8 per 1000 people (APC)
• Cybercafés / Cybercafés:
• Project telecentres / Télécentres de projets:

b) Internet / Internet :

• Dial-up subscribers / Abonnés par ligne téléphonique :
• Internet users / Utilisateurs de l'internet : 25,000 Internet users as of Sept/05, 5.2% of the population, per ITU (Internet World Stats)

c) Other / Autre :

• Digital Opportunity Index (DOI): 0.33 (ITU 2006)

2.3 ICT policy / Politique de TIC

Cape Verde National Information and Communications Infrastructure (NICI) plan (2001): "Plan National de Développement d’Infrastructure des Technologies d’Information et Communication" http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/Documents/PNTICS-fr_version_final.pdf

More information on Cape Verde's NICI policy is available at:

• NICI country page http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/Cape_Verde/cape.htm
• NICI policy http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/country_profiles/Cape%20Verde/capol.htm
• NICI country profile/background (not recently updated; has links to other NICI pages) http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/country_profiles/Cape%20Verde/capab.htm

The APC page, "ICT Policy in Cape-Verde" has some information and links:

• In English: http://rights.apc.org/africa/index.shtml?apc=s21823e_1
• En français: http://afrique.droits.apc.org/index.shtml?apc=s21823e_1

2.4 ICT4D/E & ICT training / TIC pour le développement/éducation, et formation en TIC

WikiEducator has a table on enabling and constraining factors for ICTs in education http://www.wikieducator.org/ICT4Africa/Country_Report_Cape_Verde

2.5 Resources / Ressources

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3. Localisation situation / Situation de localisation

3.1 Country web content / Contenu web du pays

3.2 Web content in indigenous languages / Contenu web en langues indigènes

3.3 Software localisation / Localisation de logiciel

Not aware of any software localisation activities.

3.4 Projects & organisations / Projets et organisations

3.5 Localisation policy / Politique de localisation

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4. References / Références

APC, "ICT Policy in Cape-Verde," Africa ICT Policy Monitor, http://rights.apc.org/africa/index.shtml?apc=s21823e_1 ("Politiques de TIC en/au Cap Vert," Observatoire des politiques des TIC en Afrique, http://afrique.droits.apc.org/index.shtml?apc=s21823e_1

Bartens, Angela (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Sans Andrés), 1999. The Rocky road till education in Creole: Examples from Portuguese-, Spanish- and French-based creole speaking communities. Cuadernos del Caribe N°3

International Telecommunications Union (ITU). 2006. World Information Society Report 2006. Geneva: ITU. http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/worldinformationsociety/2006/wisr-web.pdf

______. 2004. African Telecommunication Indicators 2004. Geneva: ITU.

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), "Distribution of Top-Level Domain Names by Host Country, Jan 2007" http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/ops/ds/

Internet World Stats: Africa. 2006. http://internetworldstats.com/africa.htm

Leclerc, Jacques. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde, "République du Cap-Vert," http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/afrique/Cap-Vert.htm

SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, "Languages of Cape Verde Islands," http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=CV

UNDP. 2006. ''Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis. Human Development Report 2006.'' New York: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). [Human development index Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older) (HDI) http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/statistics/indicators/3.html ]

UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa. 1985. African Community Languages and Their Use in Literacy and Education: A Regional Survey. Dakar: UNESCO.

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), "The World Factbook: Cape Verde," https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cv.html

Vodafone. 2005. "Africa: The Impact of Mobile Phones." The Vodafone Policy Paper Series, Number 3, March 2005. http://www.vodafone.com/assets/files/en/GPP%20SIM%20paper.pdf

WikiEducator, "ICT4Africa/Country Report Cape Verde," http://www.wikieducator.org/ICT4Africa/Country_Report_Cape_Verde

Wikipedia, "ALUPEC", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALUPEC

______, "Cabo Verde," http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabo_Verde

______, "Cape Verde," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde

______, "Communications in Cape Verde," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_Cape_Verde

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