Indo-Portuguese creoles


Indo-Portuguese creoles are the several Portuguese creoles spoken in the former Portuguese Indian settlements, Kerala, Fort Bassein, Goa and Damaon, Portuguese Ceylon etc; in present-day India and Sri Lanka. These creoles are now mostly extinct or endangered. They have substantial European Portuguese words in their grammars or lexicons:
The expression Indo-Portuguese''' may refer not only to the creoles but also to the creole people groups of Luso-Indians and Portuguese Burghers, who spoke them on the Indian subcontinent.