Bengali Portuguese creole | |
States: | India, Bangladesh |
Extinct: | Sometime in the 19th, early 20th century |
Familycolor: | Creole |
Fam1: | Portuguese Creole |
Fam2: | Indo-Portuguese Creoles |
Dia1: | Calcutta Creole Portuguese |
Dia2: | Dacca Creole Portuguese |
Dia3: | Chittagong Creole Portuguese |
Iso3: | none |
Glotto: | none |
Bengali Portuguese Creole (pt|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.
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.