Annobonese language

Spoken in

Creole

• Portuguese based African Portuguese Creoles Gulf of Guinea Creoles

Cpp

Fab

The Annobonesische language among its speakers as Fá d' Ambo or Fa d' Ambu known, is a lingua franca on the island of Annobon.

It is spoken by about 2500 people on the islands of Bioko and Annobon off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, especially of people of mixed African and Spanish- Portuguese origin. Annobonesisch is a Portuguese Creole. It is known in Portuguese as Falar de Ano Bom or anobonense than anobonés in Spanish.

Origin

The language was spoken originally abducted by the descendants of Portuguese men and mostly from São Tomé and Angola enslaved women of the Bantu. It is therefore a mixture of Portuguese and Forro.

Special

Annobonesisch shares with the Forro the same structure and 82 % of the vocabulary. After Annobon was transferred to Spain, the language received a few words of Spanish origin, about 10 % of their vocabulary, although one can not be sure, because Spanish and Portuguese are closely related as the Ibero-Romance languages. Nowadays, Spanish and Portuguese are the standard sole official languages ​​of the island. Portuguese is used as a liturgical language, and was declared in 2007, is the third official language of Equatorial Guinea in Spanish and French.