Indo-Portuguese creoles
Indo-Portuguese Creole | |
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Native to | India, Sri Lanka |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2006)[1] |
Portuguese Creole
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
idb |
Glottolog |
indo1327 [2]indo1318 (bookkeeping code with extensive bibliography)[3] |
The Indo-Portuguese creoles are the several creole languages of India and Sri Lanka which had a substantial Portuguese influence in grammar or lexicon, such as
- Sri Lankan Portuguese creole
- Diu Portuguese creole
- Daman Portuguese creole
- Kristi language
- Cochin Portuguese creole
- Cannanore Portuguese creole
- Bengali Portuguese creole
The expression Indo-Portuguese may refer not only to the creoles but also to the ethnic groups speaking those languages.
References
- ↑ Indo-Portuguese Creole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Indo-Portuguesic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Indo-Portuguese". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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