Principense Creole

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Principense Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken primarily on Príncipe Island in São Tomé and Príncipe, known for its unique blend of Portuguese and West African linguistic features.

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Principense Creole canonical 4
Principense creole 1

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instanceOf Portuguese-based creole
creole language
language of São Tomé and Príncipe
developedFrom contact between Portuguese and African languages
developedInCentury 16th century
17th century
hasAlternativeName Crioulo do Príncipe NERFINISHED
Lunguie
Lunguyê NERFINISHED
Principense
hasCountry São Tomé and Príncipe NERFINISHED
hasDomainOfUse home
local community interactions
hasEndangermentCause lack of intergenerational transmission
language shift to Portuguese
urbanization
hasLanguageCodeISO6393 pre
hasLanguageFamily Portuguese creole
hasLexifierLanguage Portuguese
hasLinguisticFeature Portuguese-derived lexicon
West African–influenced phonology
West African–influenced syntax
nasal vowels
reduced inflectional morphology
serial verb constructions
simplified consonant clusters
use of preverbal tense-aspect-mood markers
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Portuguese
West African languages
hasPrimaryRegion Príncipe Island NERFINISHED
hasRelatedLanguage Angolar Creole NERFINISHED
Cape Verdean Creole NERFINISHED
Forro Creole NERFINISHED
Guinea-Bissau Creole NERFINISHED
hasResearchField Portuguese-based creoles
creole studies
hasSecondaryRegion São Tomé Island NERFINISHED
hasShiftToLanguage Forro Creole NERFINISHED
Portuguese NERFINISHED
hasSpeakerNumberStatus very few fluent speakers
hasStatus endangered language
hasSubstrateLanguage Bantu languages
Kwa languages
West African languages
hasWordOrder SVO
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
isSpokenBy Afro-descendant population of Príncipe
isUsedIn informal oral communication

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Forro isRelatedTo Principense Creole
Angolar isRelatedTo Principense Creole
this entity surface form: Principense creole
Angolar Creole isDistinctFrom Principense Creole
Portuguese Creole hasSubgroup Principense Creole
Annobonese Creole closelyRelatedTo Principense Creole