Indo-Portuguese Creole | |
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Native to | India, Sri Lanka |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2006)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | idb |
Glottolog | indo1327 indo1318 bookkeeping code with extensive bibliography |
Indo-Portuguese creoles are the several Portuguese creoles spoken in the erstwhile Portuguese Indian settlements, Cochin Portuguese Creole, Fort Bassein, Goa and Damaon, Portuguese Ceylon etc; in present-day India and Sri Lanka. These creoles are now mostly extinct or endangered. They have substantial European Portuguese words 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.
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Upper Guinea |
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Gulf of Guinea |
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Indo-Portuguese |
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Southeast Asian |
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East Asian |
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Creoles with strong Portuguese lexical influence |
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