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Description[edit | edit source]
Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is a country on the west coast of Central Africa, with an area of 28,000 square kilometres (11,000 sq mi). Formerly the colony of Spanish Guinea, its post-independence name evokes its location near both the Equator and the Gulf of Guinea. As of 2015, the country had a population of 1,225,367. [1]
The Languages are:
- Equatoguinean Spanish
- French
- Portuguese
- Indigenous languages include Fang, Bube, Benga, Ndowe, Balengue, Bujeba, Bissio, Gumu, Igbo, Pichinglis, Fa d'Ambô and the nearly extinct Baseke.
Word List(s)[edit | edit source]
- Spanish Genealogical Word List
- Portuguese Genealogical Word List
- French Genealogical Word List
- Useful Spanish Phrases - Omniglot
- Useful French Phrases - Omniglot
- Useful Portuguese Phrases - Omniglot
Alphabet and Pronunciation[edit | edit source]
- Spanish Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot --- includes Equatoguinean Spanish
- French Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
- Portuguese Alphabet and Pronunciation - Omniglot
Language Aids and Dictionaries[edit | edit source]
Language Aids
- Spanish grammar - Wikipedia
- French grammar - Wikipedia
- Portuguese grammar - Wikipedia
- Spanish Handwriting - BYU Script Tutorial
- French Handwriting - BYU Script Tutorial
- Portuguese Handwriting - BYU Script Tutorial
Dictionaries
- Jarman, BeatrizGalimberti and Nicholas Rollin. The Oxford Spanish dictionary. Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2008. Available at: WorldCat.
- Girard, Denis. Cassell's French-English, English-French dictionary. Wiley, New York: Macmillan, 2002. Available at: WorldCat.
- García, Teresa Alvarez and Sinda López Fuentes. Portuguese dictionary. Bishopbriggs, Glasgow: Collins, 2018. Available at: WorldCat.
Online Dictionaries
- English-Spanish Dictionary - Collins
- English-French Dictionary - Collins
- English-Portuguese Dictionary - Collins
Additional Resources[edit | edit source]
- Equatorial Guinea - Wikipedia
- Equatorial Guinea - Britannica
- The Spanish Language of Equatorial Guinea - Jstor
- How Equatorial Guinea became the only Spanish speaking country in Africa
- Fegley, Randall. Equatorial Guinea. Oxford: Clio Press, 1991. Available at: WorldCat.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Equatorial Guinea," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea, accessed 8 Apr 2021.