Abstract
There are four Portuguese Creole languages in the Gulf of Guinea: Santome, Angolar, Principense and Fa d'ambô. Günther (1973), Ferraz (1979) and Hagemeijer (2009), among others, claim that in the late fifteenth century contact and multilinguism promoted the emergence of a protocreole that latter branched into four languages. Thus, these languages, though now distinct from each other, had…