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AngolarLanguage
The AngolarLanguage is a PortugueseBasedCreoleLanguage of SaoTomeEPrincipe. SIL code: AOA. ISO 639-2: cpp. Population: 5,000 (1998 S. and T. Graham. Region: Angolar is spoken on the southern tip of Sao Tome Island. Most are around the town of Sao Joao dos Angolares, and some in the southern region of Caue. Alternate names: NGOLA. Comments: The substratum was largely Kwa and Western Bantu languages, quite distinct from the creoles of Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, and Cape Verde. The 33% of the Angolar lexicon not shared with Sao Tomense is largely of Bantu origin, apparently KiMbundu of Angola, with some from Kongo, Bini, and Ndingi. Angolar shares 70% lexical similarity with Sao Tomense, 67% with Principense, 53% with Annobonese. Some Angolares speak Sao Tomense also, and are tending to be absorbed into the Forros. Many speak Portuguese, but many are not comfortable in speaking it. Home and community social life. The Angolares are a distinct ethnolinguistic group from the Forros ('freedmen'). Grammar. Tonal. Literacy rate in second language: 50% Portuguese. Christian.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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InstancesContentBearingPhysicalAny Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
 CreoleLanguageA CreoleLanguage is a PidginLanguage that has developed and become the mother tongue for a community of people. This process is called 'creolization' and results in an expanded vocabulary and grammar structure that allow for communication as rich and complex as that of non-creole languages. While pidgins are regarded as reduced languages, creoles are considered expanded languages. That is, while pidgins develop to enable communication in relatively isolated domains, creoles allow for a full range of expressive possibilities on a par with more 'recognized' languages.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 entit�The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 langage humainThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 langageA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
 expression linguistiqueThis is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
 physiqueAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
 PortugueseBasedCreoleLanguageA PortugueseBasedCreoleLanguage is a CreoleLanguage using a grammatical and core lexical foundation of the PortugueseLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 SpokenHumanLanguageA SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form.
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