The Principense language, 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.[2] Today it is mostly spoken by some elderly women (the Ethnologue entry lists 200 native speakers); most of the island's community speaks 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.
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| Upper Guinea Creoles |
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| Gulf of Guinea Creoles |
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| Indo-Portuguese Creoles |
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| Malayo-Portuguese Creoles |
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| Sino-Portuguese Creoles |
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| American Portuguese Creoles |
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| Creoles with strong Portuguese lexical influence |
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