Forro

E94968
Portuguese-based creole language creole language language

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

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Forro Creole 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Portuguese-based creole language ⓘ
creole language ⓘ
language ⓘ
belongsToMacroArea Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ
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 NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup Forro people ⓘ
Santomeans NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasHistoricalSuperstrate Portuguese ⓘ
surface form: European Portuguese
hasLanguageCodeISO639-3 for ⓘ
hasLanguageFamily Portuguese Creole NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguageStatus minority language ⓘ
regional language ⓘ
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ
West African languages ⓘ
hasMorphosyntacticType analytic language ⓘ
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Portuguese ⓘ
hasPrimaryIsland São Tomé NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPrimaryLexifier Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasRegion Gulf of Guinea NERFINISHED ⓘ
São Tomé and Príncipe NERFINISHED ⓘ
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 NERFINISHED ⓘ
Principense Creole ⓘ
isSpokenAlongside Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ
isSpokenBy Afro-descendant population of São Tomé ⓘ
isSpokenInDomain home ⓘ
informal communication ⓘ
isSpokenInUrbanArea São Tomé ⓘ
surface form: São Tomé city
isUsedIn music ⓘ
oral literature ⓘ
storytelling ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

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

Forro → hasAlternativeName → Forro ⓘ
this entity surface form: Forro Creole
this entity surface form: Forro Creole