Bengali Portuguese creole

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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 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog None

Bengali Indo-Portuguese Creole[citation needed] was an Indo-Portuguese creole spoken in various cities in Bengal, in India and Bangladesh: Calcutta, Balasore, Pipli, Chandernagore, Chittagong, Midnapore, Hugli, Dacca.[1] The language was formed from contact between the Portuguese and Bengali languages.[2] It is now extinct.

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  2. Arends, Muysken, & Smith (1995) Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction, p 353