The Principense language, called lunguyê ("Language of the Island") by its speakers, is is spoken by a couple of thousand speakers in São Tomé and Príncipe, mostly elderly women, almost all of them on the island of Príncipe. Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... A Portuguese Creole is a creole language based on the Portuguese language. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2:1998 Codes for the representation of names of languages — Part 2: Alpha-3 code Twenty-two of the languages have two three-letter codes: a code for bibliographic use (ISO 639-2/B) a code for terminological use (ISO 639-2/T). ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system of phonetic notation devised by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) used in spoken human language. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone = sound/voice) is the study of sounds (voice). ... Unicode is an industry standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers. ... Príncipe is the smaller of the two major islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. ...

Principense presents many similarities with the Forro language of São Tomé, and can be seen as a dialect of it. Like Forro, it is a creole language based on Portuguese with substrates of Bantu and Kwa. Forro is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe. ... The cathedral of São Tomé São Tomé (population 53,300 (in 2003) is the capital city of São Tomé and Príncipe and is by far the nations largest town. ... // A Creole is a language descended from a pidgin that has become the native language of a group of people. ... Bantu is a language family that belongs to the Niger-Congo group. ... The Kwa languages are spoken in the south-eastern part of Côte dIvoire, in Ghana, Togo and Benin, and the south-Western corner of Nigeria. ...

Links

• Principense Ethnologue report on Principense.

See also

• Portuguese Creole