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Cape Verde: International institutions have begun using the spelling “Cabo Verde,”

2014/02/13

International institutions have begun using the spelling “Cabo Verde,” without translating the country’s name. In an extensive statement on February 10, the Boston Globe explains that Anglophones wrote “Cape Verde,” Fins, Swedes and German-speakers “Kap Verde” and Italians “Capo Verde,” which created problems, for example, at the same time as sending simple diplomatic cables and for the elaboration of tourist guides.

International institutions adopt spelling “Cabo Verde”

The United Nations Organization recognized the spelling “Cabo Verde” in 2013 in response to a request from Cape Verdean authorities, and the new designation is presently used in all of the United Nations’ official languages. “There is a appropriate taste and power in saying this is what we are. We are no longer labeled as being this or that,” declared Minister of Culture Mário Lúcio Sousa to the Boston Globe.

Nevertheless, Republic of Cabo Verde is still accepted, as is République du Cabo Verde in French. In the United States, according to the same newspaper, US government data bases and sites, such as that of the CIA, have by presently adopted the designation Cabo Verde.

In the words of the New England-based newspaper, a country’s name translates its culture, identity and history. “It is a brand that influences everything from economic development to international investment opportunities and tourism. Cabo Verde is on maps. It’s emblazoned on the sides of airplanes. It’s on the cover of trade magazines,” writes the Boston Globe.

“At the same time as you say United States, people think: powerful, of the economy, the country of invention, of dreams. At the same time as you talk about Cabo Verde, people think . . . of sun, the beach, nice people, smiles, working people,” declared the Minister of Culture, for whom Cabo Verde will as well any minute at this time be a synonym of delicacies such as the organic wines made from grapes grown in the volcanic soils of the island of Fogo.

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