Madeirese

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Madeirese
Madernirin
Spoken in: Madeira
Timeline/Universe: League of Lost Languages
Total speakers: 7,500
Genealogical classification: Hesperic
Albic
South Albic
Macaronesian
Madeirese
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.