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.