Angolar language

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Angolar
Ngola
Spoken in: São Tomé and Príncipe
Total speakers: 5,000[1]
Language family: Creole language
 Portuguese Creole
  Afro-Portuguese Creole
   Gulf of Guinea Creole
    Angolar
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: cpp
ISO 639-3: aoa

Angolar, also Ngola (called Lungua N'golá) 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 Umbundo, a Bantu language from inland Angola, where a number of black slaves were taken to this island. Angolan residents and tourists speaking Portuguese and Umbundo are surprised when they hear this Creole which is almost similar to their dialect.

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