Madeirese
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| Madeirese | |
| Spoken in: | Madeira |
| Timeline/Universe: | League of Lost Languages |
| Total speakers: | 7,500 |
| Genealogical classification: | Hesperic
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| Basic word order: | VSO |
| Morphological type: | agglutinating |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | active-stative |
| Created by: | |
| Jörg Rhiemeier | 2009- |
Madeirese is an Albic language of the Macaronesian group, spoken in Madeira. With 7,500 speakers, it is the Macaronesian language with the largest speaker community, but still only a small minority against the dominant language of Madeira, Portuguese.
