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Principense Creole. Principense Creole, also called lunguyê creole ("creole of the island") by its native speakers, is a Portuguese creole language spoken by a community of some four thousand people in São Tomé and Príncipe, specifically on the island of Príncipe. There are two Portuguese creoles on the island of São Tomé, Angolar and ...
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São Tomé is an island of the Gulf of Guinea, discovered by the Portuguese in the 15th century. It was uninhabited at the time, but Portuguese settlers used the island as a center of the slave trade, and there was a need for slaves on the island. It has been theorised that since both parties needed to communicate, a pidgin was formed. The substrate ...
Forro is a creole language with a majority of its lexicon coming from Portuguese, the superstrate language. The substrate languages were from the Bantu and Kwa groups. It is similar to two other creoles spoken in the country (Principense Creole and Angolar Creole) as well as to the creole found in the island of Annobón, Equatorial Guinea (Annobones...
Forro Creole is spoken mainly in São Tomé Island (most of it); there are some speakers in Principe Island. Due to their great similarity and historical derivation, Principe Island's Principense Creole and Equatorial Guinea's Annobonese Creolemay be regarded as dialects of Forro Creole. Forro's lexical similarity is 77% with Principense Creole, 62% ...
Although the São Tomean Creole had (and still has) a restricted contact with Portuguese (seen as a prestigious language), it did preserve a larger number of the substrate languages' elements, more than the creoles of Cape Verde. Roughly 93% of São Tomean Creole lexicon is from Portuguese and 7% of African origin. Most Forro Creole speakers also spe...
Hello: Seja lovadu! (proposed: sejalovadu); From Port. seja louvadoGood Morning: Bom dja ô (proposed: Bondja o); From Port. bom diaGood Afternoon: Bos tadji ô (proposed: Boxtadji o); From Port. boas tardes or boa tardeGood Evening: Boj notxi ô (proposed: Bojnotxi o); From Port. boas noites or boa noiteWhat's your name: Que nomi bo e? (proposed: Ke nomi bo e?); possibly from Port. qual é o teu nome? or como te chamas?My name's Pedro: Nomi mu sa Pedro; possibly from Port. o meu nome é Pedro.- 51-AAC-aca
- Portuguese Creole, Lower GuineaForro Creole, Sãotomense
- 70,000 (1999)
- São Tomé and Príncipe
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2. Definition. The main question raised here is: how do we define a creole language? Wikipedia gives the following definition online: “A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that has developed from a pidgin (i.e., a simplified language or simplified mixture of languages used by non-native speakers), becoming nativized by children as their first language, with the ...
Sep 19, 2017 · Sao Tome and Principe pride in a rich diversity of languages which reflects the ethnic mix present in the nation. Local varieties of the language also command a large speaking population such as Forro, Principense, Cape Verdean Creole, and Angolar. English and French are the two top foreign forms of speech taught in school.
The many Portuguese-lexified creole languages in Africa and Asia are the product of Portugal’s colonial past. The creoles to be discussed that developed in Africa belong to two subgroups: the Upper Guinea Creoles (Cape Verdean, Guiné Bissau Creole, Casamance Creole) and the Gulf of Guinea Creoles (Santome, Angolar, Principense, Fa d’Ambô).
Principense Creole, also called lunguyê creole ("creole of the island") by its native speakers, is a Portuguese creole language spoken by a community of some four thousand people in São Tomé and Príncipe, specifically on the island of Príncipe. There are two Portuguese creoles on the island of São Tomé, Angolar and Forro. Today, younger generations of São Toméans are not likely to ...
