Bengali Portuguese Creole

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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

• Portuguese-based creole languages
• Indo-Portuguese creoles

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