“…The contact among Portuguese and languages from the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo family (NURSE;PHILIPPSON, 2003;LUCCHESI, 2004) as constituent of the Brazilian Portuguese has attracted the interest of linguists and historians (FIORIN;PETTER, 2008;ALMEIDA, 2014ALMEIDA, , 2019GALVES, 2014;VIOTTI, 2014;MAGALHÃES, 2018;AVELAR, 2019). Among the languages that belong to that branch, only a few were spoken by the enslaved peoples brought to Brazil (ALMEIDA, 2014(ALMEIDA, , 2019LUCCHESI, 2004;PESSOA DE CASTRO, 2012), which imposes the careful identification of which Bantu languages got in contact with that version of Portuguese along three centuries in different areas of what would come to be the Brazilian territory: Kikongo, Kimbundu, and Umbundu. 1 Such interest takes part of a long agenda of discussion about Brazilian Portuguese being as it is due to natural evolution from European Portuguese or contact with indigenous and African languages.…”