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Description

Portuguese is the official and the de facto national language of São Tomé and Príncipe, with about 98.4% speaking it.

Restructured variants of Portuguese or Portuguese creoles are also spoken:

• Forro Creole - 36.2%
• Cape Verdean Creole - 8.5%
• Angolar Creole - 6.6%
• Principense Creole - 1%

Foreign languages taught in schools are:

• French - 6.8%
• English - 4.9%

Word List(s)

• Portuguese Genealogical Word List
• Useful Portuguese phrases - Omniglot
• Useful phrases in Cape Verdean Creole - Omniglot
• Forro Creole Phrases - Wikipedia
• Cape Verdean Creole phrases - Wikipedia

Alphabet and Pronunciation

Alphabet

• Portuguese alphabet - Omniglot
• Cape Verdean Creole alphabet - Omniglot
• Cape Verdean Creolo Vowels & Consonants - Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• Portuguese pronunciation - Omniglot
• Cape Verdean Creole pronunciation - Omniglot

Language Aids and Dictionaries

Dictionaries

• Whitlam, John and Lia Noêmia Rodrigues Correia Raitt. The Oxford new Portuguese dictionary : Portuguese-English. New York: Berkley Books, 2008. Available at: WorldCat.
• Fuentes, Sinda López, Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, and Helen Newstead. BOOKTITLE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Available at: WorldCat.
• Rougé, Jean-Louis. Dictionnaire étymologique des créoles portugais d'Afrique. Paris: Karthala, 2004. Available at: WorldCat.

Online Dictionaries

• Dictionary English - Portuguese - Glosbe
• Dictionary Angolar - Cafundo Creole - Glosbe

Language Aids

• Cape Verdean Creole Grammar - Wikipedia
• Tyson-Ward, Sue. Portuguese grammar. Chicago, Ill: McGraw-Hill, 2004. Available at: WorldCat.
• Tyson-Ward, Sue. Essential Portuguese grammar. Blacklick, OH: McGraw-Hill, 2012. Available at: WorldCat.
• Maurer, Philippe. Principense (Lung'Ie) : grammar, texts, and vocabulary of the Afro-Portuguese creole. London: Battlebridge, 2009. Available at: WorldCat.
• Lorenzino, Gerardo. The Angolar Creole Portuguese of São Tomé : its grammar and sociolinguistic history. München: LINCOM Europa, 1998. Available at: WorldCat.
• Alexandre, Nélia. The defective copy theory of movement : evidence from wh-constructions in Cape Verdean Creole. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co, 2012. Available at: WorldCat.

Additional Resources

• Ferraz, Luiz Ivens. The Creole of Sao Tome. n.p.: Taylor & Francis, 1978. Available at: WorldCat.
• Gonçalves, Manuel and Lelia Lomba De Andrade. Learn to speak Cape Verdean Creole. Dorchester, MA: Manuel Gonçalves, 2004. Available at: WorldCat.