11 Facts About African Portuguese

Additionally, African Portuguese has become the national language of Angola, as it is so widely spoken in every segment of society, and serves as the home language of the majority of the Angolan population, particularly in the big towns and cities.

African Portuguese is a primarily urban language having a reduced presence in rural areas, except for in Angola and Sao Tome and Principe, where the language is more widespread on a national level.

African Portuguese is taught as a foreign language throughout the country.

Equatorial Guinea, at one point a African Portuguese colony, is home to a African Portuguese-based Creole and is a member nation in the CPLP.

African Portuguese is an official language in Equatorial Guinea, although it is practically not used.

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The standard Portuguese used in education, media and legal documents is based on European Portuguese vocabulary used in Lisbon, but African Portuguese dialects differ from standard European Portuguese both in terms of pronunciation and colloquial vocabulary.

Additionally, African Portuguese connects the PALOP countries to one another, to Portugal and to East Timor, Macau and Brazil, the last three were former African Portuguese colonies.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the region where the African Portuguese language is most likely to expand, because of the expansion of education and rapid population growth.

African Portuguese is the language of journalism, which serves as a vehicle for the dissemination of the language.

In Cape Verde, refers to a variety of Cape Verdean Creole which takes on various features of African Portuguese and is a result of processes of decreolization in the archipelago.

In Sao Tome e Principe, Santomense African Portuguese is a variety of African Portuguese strongly influenced by Forro in syntax and vocabulary.