Actitudes lingüísticas de los santotomenses: la creación del Instituto Nacional das Línguas de São Tomé e Príncipe como medio para la cohesión social y la de la Academia Sãotomense da Língua Portuguesa para el fortalecimiento de las autoestimas lingüísticas, claves para el desarrollo

Abstract

The linguistic reality of São Tomé (and, to less extent, of Príncipe) is that of a small island territory in which communities coexist that, except for literate, do not share a language: the Angolars, the Tongas, the Cape Verdean community (with its insular variety of Cape Verdean Creole) and the forros (the community that speaks the Portuguese-based Sao Tome Creole), in addition to the bilingual and monolingual communities that speak a Sao Tome Portuguese not accepted as standard Portuguese