Principense Creole
| Principense Creole | |
|---|---|
| Lunguyê | |
| Native to | São Tomé and Príncipe |
| Ethnicity | 1,560 (1999)[1] |
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Native speakers
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unknown (200 cited 1999)[2] |
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Portuguese-based creole
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pre |
| Glottolog | prin1242[3] |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAC-acb |
Principense Creole, called lunguyê ("language of the island") by its speakers, is a Portuguese creole spoken in a community of some four thousand people in São Tomé and Príncipe, specifically on the island of Príncipe (there are two Portuguese-based creoles on São Tomé, Angolar and São Tomense), according to a 1989 study.[4] Today it is mostly spoken by some elderly women (the Ethnologue entry lists 200 native speakers); most of the island's community speaks noncreolized Portuguese; some also speak Forro.
Principense presents many similarities with the Forro on São Tomé and may be regarded as a Forro dialect. Like Forro, it is a creole language based on Portuguese with substrates of Bantu and Kwa.
References
- ↑ Principense Creole at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
- ↑ Principense Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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