Indo-Portuguese creoles

Indo-Portuguese Creole
Native to	India, Sri Lanka
Native speakers	5,000 (2006)^[1]
Language family	Portuguese Creole Indo-Portuguese Creole
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

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)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Indo-Portuguesic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Indo-Portuguese". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Portuguese-based creole languages

Upper Guinea	Cape Verdean Creole Guinea-Bissau Creole Papiamento

Lower Guinea	Angolar Annobonese Forro Principense

Indo-Portuguese	Cannanore Indo-Portuguese Cochin Indo-Portuguese (extinct) Daman and Diu Portuguese Korlai Indo-Portuguese Sri Lankan Portuguese

Southeast Asian	Mardijker or Papiá Tugu (extinct) Bidau Portuguese (extinct) Papiá Kristang Portugis (extinct)

East Asian	Macanese

Creoles with strong Portuguese lexical influence	Saramaccan

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