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[3] [4] It is spoken as a second language by many more throughout the country, and younger urban generations are moving towards the dominant or exclusive use of Portuguese. The 2014 population census found that about 71% of the nearly 25.8 million inhabitants of Angola speak Portuguese at home.
Their native language is Portuguese, which today is the official language and lingua franca of Angola. Their communities existing in Luanda, Benguela and Moçâmedes spoke until the early 20th-century Portuguese mixed with numerous elements from African languages, especially Kimbundu and Umbundu.
Portuguese is the official language of Angola. Angolan Portuguese ( Portuguese : português de Angola ) is a group of dialects and accents of Portuguese used in Angola. In 2005 it was used there by 60% of the population, including by 20% as their first language.
My Channel Africa is an Angolan pay television channel, owned by Grupo Record. It is available via satellite, through the operator DStv (channel 515, in HD and SD definitions), and on cable television, through the operator TV Cabo (channel 13), for some provinces of Angola and Mozambique.
Televisão Pública de Angola E.P. (Public Television of Angola) or TPA is the national broadcaster of the Southern African state of Angola. It operates two generalist television channels (TPA 1 and TPA 2) and a news channel (TPA Notícias). TPA is headquartered in the capital city Luanda and broadcasts in the Portuguese language.
ZAP operates from the Eutelsat 36B satellite, placed over Africa at 36,0 degrees East, broadcasting in DVB-S2 in five K u band transponders with MPEG-4 compression and Nagravision encryption. [ 1 ] ZAP provides an unprecedented number of Portuguese-language channels for a region where Portuguese-speaking African countries account for more than ...
Angola Telecom is one of twelve companies participating in the West Africa Cable System (WACS) consortium, a submarine communications cable running along the west coast of Africa and on to Portugal and the United Kingdom. [4] The landing station for the older Sat3 cable, located at Cacuaco in Luanda, is operated by Angola Telecom. [5]
Corporate headquarters in Luanda. Angola has upgraded critical infrastructure, an investment made possible by funds from the country's development of oil resources. [124] According to a report, just slightly more than ten years after the end of the civil war Angola's standard of living has overall greatly improved. Life expectancy, which was ...