Angolar Creole

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Angolar Creole
Ngola
Native to São Tomé and Príncipe
Native speakers
unknown (5,000 cited 1998)[1]
Portuguese-based creole
  • Lower Guinea
    • Angolar Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3 aoa
Glottolog ango1258[2]
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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:

  1. plantation creoles,
  2. fort creoles,
  3. maroon creoles

(Bickerton 1988)

Angolar is considered a maroon creole.[3]

References

  1. Angolar Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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  3. http://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/sum07/myths/creoles.pdf


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