Indo-Portuguese creoles

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Indo-Portuguese Creole
Native toIndia, Sri Lanka
Native speakers
5,000 (2006)[1]
Portuguese Creole
  • Indo-Portuguese Creole
Language codes
ISO 639-3idb
Glottologindo1327
indo1318  bookkeeping code with extensive bibliography

Indo-Portuguese creoles are the several creole languages that formed in the erstwhile Portuguese Indian settlements, Fort Bassein, Goa and Damaon& Portuguese Ceylon etc, in present-day India and Sri Lanka. These creoles are now mostly extinct or endangered, the creoles have substantial Portuguese influence in their grammars or lexicons:

The expression Indo-Portuguese may refer not only to the creoles but also to the creole people groups of Luso-Indians and Portuguese Burghers, who spoke them on the Indian subcontinent.

References[edit]

  1. Indo-Portuguese Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

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