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

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

  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