Bengali Portuguese Creole

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.

Bengali Portuguese creole
Native toIndia, Bangladesh
ExtinctSometime in the 19th, early 20th century
Dialects
  • Calcutta Creole Portuguese
  • Dacca Creole Portuguese
  • Chittagong Creole Portuguese
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone

In Bengal, Portuguese was spoken until 1911. A Portuguese creole was still spoken in the early 20th century. Portuguese creoles were spoken in Bengal, such as at Calcutta, Dacca, Balasore, Pipli, Chandannagar, Chittagong, Firingi Bunder, Midnapore and Hugli-Chuchura.

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References

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  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