Bengali Portuguese Creole
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| Bengali Portuguese creole | |
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| Native to | India, Bangladesh |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
Portuguese Creole
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| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
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.
See also
References
- ^ "Os crioulos Indo-Portugueses" (in Portuguese). Super Goa. Archived from the original on 23 July 2007. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ Arends, Muysken, & Smith (1995) Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction, p 353
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| Indo-European | |
| Sino-Tibetan | |
| Austroasiatic | |
| Dravidian | |
| Afro-Asiatic | |
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