Calunga is an Afro-Brazilian speech that is currently spoken by perhaps hundreds of people in and around the rural town of Patrocínio, Minas Gerais. This speech is a partially Africanized dialect of rural Brazilian Portuguese -Africanized particularly in the lexical aspect. In analyzing the Calunga lexicon, Bantu languages such as Kimbundu, Umbundu, and Kikongo to some extent, form an integral part. The present study examines and catalogs the lexicon of Calunga, which is a key linguistic component of this Afro-Brazilian speech.
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