Principense Creole
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Principense Creole (endonym: {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe, specifically the island of Príncipe. There are two Portuguese creoles on the island of São Tomé, Angolar and Forro.<ref name="Holm">Template:Cite book</ref> Today, younger generations of São Toméans are not likely to speak Principense, which has led to its fast decline and moribund status.<ref name="santomense">Estudo do Léxico do São-Tomense com Dicionário, Carlos Fontes - Universidade de Coimbra.</ref> It is mostly spoken by the elderly (Ethnologue gives a figure of approximately 200 native speakers in total), while most of the island's community speaks noncreole Portuguese; some also speak another, closely related creole, Forro.
Principense presents many similarities with the Forro on São Tomé and may be regarded as a Forro dialect. Like Forro, it is a creole language heavily lexified by Portuguese with substrates of Bantu and Kwa.
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