  SaotomenseLanguage
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Sigma KEE - SaotomenseLanguage
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SaotomenseLanguage
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The SaotomenseLanguage is a PortugueseBasedCreoleLanguage of SaoTomeEPrincipe. SIL code: CRI ISO 639-2: cpp. Population: 69,899 (1999 S. Graham). Region: Sao Tomense is spoken on Sao Tome Island, all but the southern tip. Alternate names: SAO TOMENSE. Comments: The substratum was largely Kwa and Western Bantu languages; quite distinct from the creoles of Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia, and Cape Verde. Saotomense shares 77% lexical similarity with Principense, and 62% with Fa D'Ambu (Annobonese), 70% with Angolar. Most speak Portuguese. Some elderly women may not understand Portuguese adequately. The language of social identity in most Sao Tome social networks for age 30 and above. The Angolares are a distinct ethnolinguistic group from the Forros ('freedmen'), Saotomense speakers also on Sao Tome Island. Most Angolares speak Saotomense also, and are tending to be absorbed into the Forros. National language. Literacy rate in second language: 50% Portuguese.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | ContentBearingPhysical | Any 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. |
| | CreoleLanguage | A 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/) |
| | Entity | The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology. |
| | HumanLanguage | The subclass of Languages used by Humans. |
| | Language | A 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. |
| | LinguisticExpression | This 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. |
| | Physical | An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time. |
| | PortugueseBasedCreoleLanguage | A PortugueseBasedCreoleLanguage is a CreoleLanguage using a grammatical and core lexical foundation of the PortugueseLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | SpokenHumanLanguage | A 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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