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| Fá d’Ambô | ||
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| Spoken in: | Equatorial Guinea (mainly on Annobón island; some speakers on Bioko island) | |
| Total speakers: | 2,5001 | |
| Language family: | Creole language Portuguese Creole Afro-Portuguese Creole Gulf of Guinea Creole Fá d’Ambô |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | cpp | |
| ISO 639-3: | fab | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Annobonese language, known to its speakers as Fá d'Ambô, is spoken by 9,000 in the Annobon and Bioko Islands off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, mostly by people of mixed African, Spanish, and Portuguese descent.
Annobonese is a Portuguese Creole. It is called Falar de Ano Bom or annobonense in Portuguese language, and annobonés in Spanish.
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Origins
The language was spoken originally by the descendants of marriages between Portuguese men and African women slaves imported from other places, especially from São Tomé and Angola, and therefore descends from a mixture of Portuguese and Forro.
Features
Annobonese is analogous to Forro. In fact, it must be derived from Forro as it shares the same structure (82% of its lexicon). After Annobon passed to Spain, the language gained some words of Spanish origin (10% of its lexicon), although it is difficult to be sure, given the similarity between Spanish and Portuguese. Today, the Spanish language is the official language of the island. Portuguese is used as liturgical language.
References
External links
- Fá d'Ambô, an Ethnologue report on Fá d'Ambô.
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