Indo-Portuguese creoles

Indo-Portuguese creoles are the several, now mostly extinct or endangered Portuguese-lexified creole languages spoken in former Portuguese settlements of India and Sri Lanka, including Kerala, Bombay, Korlai, Bassein, Goa, Daman and Diu, the Bengal Delta and Portuguese Ceylon. They carry substantial Portuguese vocabulary within otherwise locally shaped grammars, and named members include the Kristi language of Korlai, the Goa Portuguese creole and the Ceylon Portuguese creole of Sri Lanka. The term Indo-Portuguese can also refer to the creole peoples who spoke these languages, the Luso-Indians and the Portuguese Burghers of the Indian subcontinent.