Damanese Portuguese

E541754

Portuguese dialect creole language regional variety of Portuguese

Damanese Portuguese is a regional variety of Portuguese historically spoken in Daman, India, reflecting a blend of Portuguese and local South Asian linguistic influences.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Daman Portuguese Creole	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Portuguese dialect ⓘ creole language ⓘ regional variety of Portuguese ⓘ
associatedWith	Indo-Portuguese communities NERFINISHED ⓘ Portuguese India NERFINISHED ⓘ
belongsTo	Indo-Portuguese creole group ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	Diu Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ Goan Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ Indo-Portuguese creoles NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	Asia ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
culturalAssociation	Catholic communities in Daman ⓘ Portuguese cultural heritage in India ⓘ
declineCause	language shift to English ⓘ language shift to Gujarati ⓘ language shift to standard Portuguese ⓘ
derivedFrom	Portuguese language NERFINISHED ⓘ
developedDuring	Portuguese colonial period in India ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Daman Indo-Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ Daman Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasDomain	home language ⓘ informal communication ⓘ oral tradition ⓘ
hasGrammarInfluenceFrom	South Asian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasInfluenceFrom	Gujarati language ⓘ Konkani language NERFINISHED ⓘ Marathi language NERFINISHED ⓘ South Asian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLexiconFrom	Gujarati language ⓘ Konkani language NERFINISHED ⓘ Portuguese language NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalColonialPower	Portugal NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalStatus	lingua franca in Daman during Portuguese rule ⓘ
languageFamily	Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages Romance languages ⓘ
lexifierLanguage	Portuguese language NERFINISHED ⓘ
morphosyntaxInfluenceFrom	South Asian languages ⓘ
partOf	Indo-Portuguese language continuum NERFINISHED ⓘ
phonologyInfluenceFrom	Gujarati language ⓘ Konkani language NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	western coast of India ⓘ
spokenIn	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu NERFINISHED ⓘ Daman NERFINISHED ⓘ India ⓘ
status	endangered language ⓘ
typologicalFeature	SVO word order ⓘ
usedBy	Luso-Indian community in Daman ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Asian Portuguese → hasDialect → Damanese Portuguese ⓘ

Portuguese Creole → hasSubgroup → Damanese Portuguese ⓘ

this entity surface form: Daman Portuguese Creole