Principense Creole

Principense Creole
Lunguyê
Native to São Tomé and Príncipe
Ethnicity 1,560 (1999)[1]
Native speakers
 200 (1999)[2]
Portuguese-based creole
  • Lower Guinea
    • Principense Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3 pre
Glottolog prin1242[3]
Linguasphere 51-AAC-acb
Location of São Tomé and Príncipe

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, younger generations of São Toméans are not likely to speak Principense, which has led to its fast decline and moribund status.[5] It is mostly spoken by the elderly (the Ethnologue entry lists 200 native speakers in total), while most of the island's community speaks noncreolized Portuguese; some also speak another, closely related creole language, 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

  1. ↑ Principense Creole at Ethnologue (14th ed., 2000).
  2. ↑ Principense Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Principense". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Holm, John A. (1989). Pidgins and Creoles: Reference Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-521-35940-5.
  5. ↑ Estudo do Léxico do São-Tomense com Dicionário, Carlos Fontes - Universidade de Coimbra.
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