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Angolar language

Angolar Creole
Ngola
Native to São Tomé and Príncipe
Native speakers
5,000 (1998)
Portuguese Creole
  • Lower Guinea
    • Angolar Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog ango1258
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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:

(Bickerton 1988)

Angolar is considered a maroon creole.


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