Bengali Portuguese creole

Bengali Portuguese creole
Native to India, Bangladesh
Extinct (date missing)
Dialects
  • Calcutta Creole Portuguese
  • Dacca Creole Portuguese
  • Chittagong Creole Portuguese
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog None

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Os crioulos Indo-Portugueses" (in Portuguese). Super Goa. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  2. ↑ Arends, Muysken, & Smith (1995) Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction, p 353


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