Preserving the Umbundu Language
The present article discusses the current sociolinguistic situation of the city of Kuito, the capital of Bié province, from a historical perspective. Specifically, it examines the use of the Umbundu language among the inhabitants of Kuito. In addition to presenting historical information of the linguistic contact between the Portuguese and the Umbundu languages, this article also presents the linguistic situation surveyed at the time of the 2014 population census, as well as data from another study that show the diminishing use of Umbundu as a communication language. This AL has gone from L1, for the older generation, to LØ for more recent generations.
