Portuguese Creole

: This article is primarily about the languages. See also a summary in the context of the other creole people.

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A Portuguese Creole is a creole language based on the Portuguese language.

Related Topics:
Creole language - Portuguese language

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The Portuguese-based Creoles are classified by geographical order and by substrate language (a language that contacted with Portuguese):

Related Topics:
Creole - Portuguese

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• Portuguese-African Creoles. Include the High-Guinean and Gulf of Guinea Creoles.
• Portuguese-Asian Creoles. Divided into Portuguese-Indian and Portuguese-Malay (including Portuguese-Chinese).
• Portuguese-American Creoles. Spoken in the Antilles and Suriname.

Today, Portuguese pidgins still exist in Angola and Mozambique, uncreolized. A Portuguese pidgin, known as 'Pequeno Português' (Simple Portuguese, literally "little Portuguese") is still used has lingua franca between distinct Angolan tribes.

Related Topics:
Angola - Mozambique

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