Angolar Creole
| Angolar Creole | |
|---|---|
| Ngola | |
| Native to | São Tomé and Príncipe |
Native speakers | (5,000 cited 1998)[1] |
Portuguese-based creole
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aoa |
| Glottolog | ango1258 |
| 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.[2]
References
- ^ Angolar Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ http://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/sum07/myths/creoles.pdf
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