Angolar Creole | |
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Ngola | |
Native to | São Tomé and Príncipe |
Native speakers
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5,000 (1998) |
Portuguese Creole
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
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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:
(Bickerton 1988)
Angolar is considered a maroon creole.