Indo-Portuguese Creole of Bombay

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{{Short description|Dead creole language of India}}
{{Use Indian English|date = February 2019}}

The '''[[Indo-Portuguese]] Creole of [[Bombay]]''' was a [[creole language|creole]] language based on [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], which grew out of the long contact between the [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] and local languages such as [[Marathi language|Marathi]] and [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]. Currently this language is extinct. It was spoken in [[Bombay]] (now [[Mumbai]]) and northern [[India]]: [[Pathein|Bassein]], [[Salsette]], [[Thane|Thana]], [[Chevai]], [[Mahim]], [[Tecelaria]], [[Dadar]], [[Parel]], [[Cavel]], [[Bandora, Goa|Bandora]]-[[Badra, India|Badra]], Govai, Marol, [[Andheri]], [[Versova, Mumbai|Versova]], [[Malvan]], [[Manori]], [[Mazagaon]]. This language was, after the [[Ceylon]] creole dialect of Indo-Portuguese, the most important. In 1906 there were still close to 5,000 people who spoke [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] Creole as their mother tongue, 2,000 in [[Mumbai]] and [[Mahim]], 1000 in [[Bandora, Goa|Bandora]], 500 in [[Thane|Thana]], 100 in Curla (now [[Kurla]]), 50 in [[Pathein|Bassein]] and 1,000 in other towns. There were, at that time, schools that taught Creole and the richest classes, which were replaced by the [[English language|English]] language.<ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://archive.is/20120729041842/http://www.colonialvoyage.com/pt/asia/lingua/heranca.html |archive-date=2012-07-29 |title=A Herança da Língua Portuguesa no Oriente (Ásia) |url=http://www.colonialvoyage.com/pt/asia/lingua/heranca.html}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Portuguese-based creole languages]]
* [[Indo-Portuguese creoles]]

==References==
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[[Category:Portuguese-based pidgins and creoles]]
[[Category:Languages of India]]

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Indo-Portuguese Creole of Bombay