Angolar Creole
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"Angolar" redirects here. For the Angolan currency, see Angolan angolar.
| Angolar Creole | |
|---|---|
| Ngola | |
| Native to | São Tomé and Príncipe |
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Native speakers
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5,000 (1998)[1] |
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Portuguese Creole
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aoa |
| Glottolog | ango1258[2] |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAC-ad |
Angolar Creole, also Ngola (Lungua N'golá) is a minority language of São Tomé and Príncipe, spoken in the southernmost towns of São Tomé Island and sparsely along the coast. It is a creole language, based partially on Portuguese with a heavy substrate of a dialect of Kimbundu (port. Quimbundo), a Bantu language from inland Angola, where a number of enslaved Africans were abducted from to this island.
According to their external history, the following three types of creole have been distinguished:
- plantation creoles,
- fort creoles,
- maroon creoles
(Bickerton 1988)
Angolar is considered a maroon creole.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Angolar Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Angolar". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ http://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/sum07/myths/creoles.pdf
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