Bengali_Portuguese_creole

Bengali Portuguese Creole

Bengali Portuguese Creole

Dead creole language of India


Bengali Portuguese Creole[citation needed] (Portuguese: Crioulo português bengali) was an Indo-Portuguese creole spoken in various cities in Bengal: Calcutta, Balasore, Pipli, Chandernagore, Chittagong, Midnapore, Hugli and Dacca.[1] The language was formed from contact between the Portuguese and Bengali languages.[2] It is now extinct.

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References

  1. "Os crioulos Indo-Portugueses" (in Portuguese). Super Goa. Archived from the original on 23 July 2007. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  2. Arends, Muysken, & Smith (1995) Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction, p 353

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