It is a creole language with a majority Portuguese lexicon and a heavy substrate of a dialect of Kimbundu (port.
Quimbundo), a Bantu language from inland Angola, where many had come from prior to being enslaved.
[2] In the middle of the 16th century, a slave ship from Angola sunk before the southern coast of São Tomé.
The surviving people aboard settled the coast as free fishermen.
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