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headwords, interwikis

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Welcome and thanks for your editing so far. It is not necessary, and even discouraged, to include interwiki links, because the software links to other languages automatically. Also, please include a headword template whenever you add a part-of-speech section. The dedicated templates for Kabuverdianu are {{kea-noun}} and {{kea-noun-form}}, so for other parts of speech you will have to use {{head|kea|verb}} and so on. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 11:31, 10 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Templates

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Hi! I would like to recommend that you use the templates {{m}} and {{l}} (like this). —suzukaze (tc) 02:13, 11 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Kabuverdianu

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I see that you have marked kafanhotu as having neuter gender. I have never studied this language, but it seems quite unlikely to me that a Portuguese-based creole would have a neuter, and in looking at {{kea-noun}}, I am becoming concerned about your knowledge of this language and how to document it. @Ungoliant MMDCCLXIVΜετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 02:44, 11 March 2018 (UTC)Reply

Some varieties of Cape Verdean have a reflex of the Portuguese gender system: optional masculine vs. feminine agreement between nouns and adjectives, but usually only when the noun refers to a human. — Ungoliant (falai) 22:44, 11 March 2018 (UTC)Reply