Angolar
Facts
- Language: Angolar
- Alternate names: Ngola
- Language code: aoa
- Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Southwestern Shifted Romance, West Ibero-Romance, Galician Romance, Macro-Portuguese, Lower Guinea Portuguese
- Creole language
- Number of speakers: 5000
- Script: Latin
More information:
Introduction
Angolar 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.
The verb
The verb is not conjugated by person.
Tense, aspect, and mood is expressed with a TAM pattern before the verb.
The following TAM are attested along with their combinations:
| Ø | - |
| ka | ta ka |
| thêka ~ thaka ~ tha | ka thêka |
| ta | (ka ta) |
References
L'angolar. Un créole afro-portugais parlé à Sao Tomé. Notes de grammaire, textes, vocabulaires. Kreolische Bibliothek, Band 16. 1995. XII, 288 Seiten.978-3-87548-112-9.