Forro

E94968

Forro is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken primarily on the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Forro Creole 6
Forro canonical 5
Forro creole 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Portuguese-based creole language
creole language
language
belongsToMacroArea Africa
developedInCentury 16th century
developedInContext Portuguese colonial plantations
hasAlternativeName Forro
surface form: Forro Creole

Forro language
São Tomé
surface form: Santome

São Tomense
hasContactLanguage Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese of São Tomé and Príncipe
hasCountry São Tomé and Príncipe
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable
hasEthnicGroup Forro people
São Tomé
surface form: Santomeans
hasHistoricalSuperstrate Portuguese
surface form: European Portuguese
hasLanguageCodeISO639-3 for
hasLanguageFamily Portuguese Creole
hasLanguageStatus minority language
regional language
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese

West African languages
hasMorphosyntacticType analytic language
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Portuguese
hasPrimaryIsland São Tomé
hasPrimaryLexifier Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
hasRegion Gulf of Guinea
São Tomé and Príncipe
hasScript Latin script
hasSecondaryIsland Príncipe
hasSubstrate Bantu languages
West African languages
hasTypologicalFeature reduced inflectional morphology
use of preverbal tense-mood-aspect markers
hasWordOrder SVO
hasWritingSystem Latin alphabet
isRelatedTo Angolar Creole
Cape Verdean Creole
Principense Creole
isSpokenAlongside Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
isSpokenBy Afro-descendant population of São Tomé
isSpokenInDomain home
informal communication
isSpokenInUrbanArea São Tomé
surface form: São Tomé city
isUsedIn music
oral literature
storytelling

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Referenced by (12)

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

African Portuguese influencedBy Forro
this entity surface form: Forro Creole
Forro hasAlternativeName Forro
this entity surface form: Forro Creole
Angolar isSpokenAlongside Forro
Angolar Creole isDistinctFrom Forro
this entity surface form: Forro Creole
São Tomé languageCommon Forro
this entity surface form: Forro creole
Portuguese Creole hasSubgroup Forro
this entity surface form: Forro Creole
Annobonese Creole closelyRelatedTo Forro
this entity surface form: Forro Creole
Forro people language Forro
this entity surface form: Forro Creole