Indo-Portuguese creoles explained

Indo-Portuguese Creole
States:India, Sri Lanka
Date:2006
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Creole
Fam1:Portuguese Creole
Iso3:idb
Glotto:indo1327
Glottorefname:Indo-Portuguesic
Glotto2:indo1318
Glottoname2:bookkeeping code with extensive bibliography
Glottorefname2:Indo-Portuguese

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.