Bidau Creole Portuguese Explained

Bidau Creole Portuguese
Also Known As:Timor Pidgin
Region:Bidau, Dili, East Timor
Extinct:1960s
Familycolor:Creole
Fam1:Portuguese Creole
Fam2:Malayo-Portuguese Creole
Iso3:tvy
Glotto:timo1258
Glottorefname:Timor Pidgin
Lingua:51-AAC-ahf

Bidau Creole Portuguese, also known as Timor Pidgin was a Portuguese-based creole language that was spoken in, Nain Feto, an eastern suburb of Dili, East Timor.

Bidau Creole Portuguese is believed to have grown out of the Portuguese spoken by settlers and mestiços from Flores Island, influenced by languages introduced to the area by military men from Lifau. It shares a number of features with nearby creoles such as Macanese.

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