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

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 it is mostly spoken by some elderly women (the Ethnologue entry lists 200 native speakers); most of the island's community speaks noncreolized Portuguese; some also speak 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; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Principense". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: 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.
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