Annobonesian language
| Fá d'Ambô | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Equatorial Guinea (mainly on Annobón Island ; some speakers on Bioko Island ) | |
| speaker | 2,500 | |
| Linguistic classification |
Creole language
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -2 |
cpp |
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| ISO 639-3 |
fab |
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The Annobonesian language , known by its speakers as Fá d'Ambô or Fa d'Ambu , is a lingua franca on the island of Annobón .
It is spoken by around 2500 people on the islands of Annobón and Bioko off the coast of Equatorial Guinea , mainly people of mixed black African and Spanish- Portuguese origins. Annobonesian is a Portuguese Creole . It is called Falar de Ano Bom or anobonense in Portuguese , and anobonés in Spanish .
origin
The language was originally spoken by the descendants of Portuguese men and mostly enslaved women from Bantu peoples kidnapped from São Tomé and Angola . It is therefore a mixture of Portuguese and Saotomic .
particularities
Annobonesian shares the same surface structure and 82% of the vocabulary with Saotomic. After Annobón was transferred to Spain , the language acquired some words of Spanish origin, about 10% of its vocabulary; the proportion cannot be determined more precisely, since Spanish and Portuguese are closely related as Ibero Romance languages . Nowadays, Spanish and standard Portuguese are the only official languages on the island. Portuguese is used as a liturgical language and was declared the third official language of Equatorial Guinea after Spanish and French in 2007 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ^ John A. Holm: Pidgins and Creoles: Reference Survey . Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1989, ISBN 9780521359405 , p. 277.