Goan Portuguese

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Goan Portuguese is a regional variety of Portuguese historically spoken in Goa, India, shaped by centuries of contact with local Konkani and Indian languages.

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Goan Portuguese canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf contact language
dialect
variety of Portuguese
associatedWith Goan identity
Indo-Portuguese culture NERFINISHED
Portuguese colonial period in Goa
closelyRelatedTo Daman and Diu Portuguese
Indo-Portuguese creoles NERFINISHED
declineAfter Annexation of Goa by India in 1961 NERFINISHED
developedFrom European Portuguese NERFINISHED
Old Portuguese NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Goan variety of Portuguese
hasFeature code-switching with Konkani
lexical borrowings from Konkani
local vocabulary for cuisine
local vocabulary for flora and fauna
local vocabulary for kinship terms
phonological influence from Konkani
historicalRegion Portuguese India NERFINISHED
influencedBy Dravidian languages NERFINISHED
Indo-Aryan languages
Konkani language NERFINISHED
languageBranch Western Romance languages
languageFamily Romance languages
regionSpecificVariantOf Portuguese as spoken in South Asia
spokenIn Goa NERFINISHED
India
status declining use
endangered
subclassOf Portuguese language NERFINISHED
timePeriod 16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
usedAs heritage language
usedBy Goan Catholics NERFINISHED
Luso-Goans NERFINISHED
usedFor Catholic liturgy
administration
education
literature
music
religious practice
theatre
usedIn Goan Catholic liturgical music
Goan tiatr theatre
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Asian Portuguese hasDialect Goan Portuguese