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Pages in category "Languages of Equatorial Guinea" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Fang (/ ˈ f ɒ ŋ /) is a Central African language spoken by around one million people, most of them in Equatorial Guinea, and northern Gabon, where it is the dominant Bantu language; Fang is also spoken in southern Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, and small fractions of the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.
The main influence on the Spanish spoken in Equatorial Guinea seems to be the varieties spoken by native Spanish colonists. [5] In a different paper, however, Lipski notes that the phonotactics of African languages might have reinforced, in Caribbean Spanish, the consonant reduction that was already taking place in Spanish from Southern Spain. [6]
African languages of Equatorial Guinea and its environment. Fa d'Ambô , a Portuguese creole, is in use in Annobón Province , in Malabo, and on Equatorial Guinea's mainland. Many residents of Bioko can also speak Spanish, particularly in the capital, and the local trade language, Pichinglis , an English-based creole.
Ñ-shaped animation showing flags of some countries and territories where Spanish is spoken. Spanish is the official language (either by law or de facto) in 20 sovereign states (including Equatorial Guinea, where it is official but not a native language), one dependent territory, and one partially recognized state, totaling around 442 million people.
Spanish is the language of education, and for this reason a majority of the population (about 88%) can speak it. [12] Annobonese speak a Portuguese Creole, named Annobonese, as their first language. Asian migrants and descendants of European settlers (mostly Spaniards, Britons and Portuguese) usually speak their ancestral languages along with ...
Equatorial Guinea; Equatorial Guinea adopted Portuguese as its third official language in October 2011. [7] Originally a Portuguese colony before it was sold to Spain in 1778 as part of peace arrangements involving also the colony of Sacramento in the Southern Cone of the Americas, Equatorial Guinea has adopted Portuguese as the country's third official language in order to be allowed into the ...
The other languages traditionally spoken in Equatorial Guinea belong to the Bantu branch of the Niger–Congo family. In the literature, Pichi is known under the names Fernando Po Creole English, [4] Fernando Po Krio, [7] [8] Fernandino Creole English, [8] Pidgin (English), [2] Broken English, [9] and Pichinglis. [10]