Principal language
Principal ( Lunguyê ) | ||
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Spoken in |
Sao Tome and Principe | |
speaker | 200-4000 | |
Linguistic classification |
Creole language
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639 -2 |
cpp |
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ISO 639-3 |
pre |
The Principensic language , nicknamed lunguyê ("language of the island") by its speakers, is a Portuguese Creole that is spoken in a community of some 4,000 people in São Tomé and Príncipe - especially on the island of Príncipe . There are two Portuguese-based Creole languages on São Tomé , Angolar and São Tomé .
Today Principensisch is mostly spoken by a few older women (according to some estimates the language has only 200 native speakers); the majority of the island community now speaks standard Portuguese; some also speak forro .
In principle it has many similarities with the Forro on Sao Tome, and could be considered a Forro dialect. Like Forro, it is a Creole language based on Portuguese with the substrate of Bantu languages and the Kwa languages .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ a b according to a 1989 study John A. Holm: Pidgins and Creoles: Reference Survey . Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1989, ISBN 9780521359405 , p. 277.