• scientific work done about the topic, the 2025 Ethnologue, The Portuguese language is spoken in Asia exclusively by a very small community of speakers, generally...
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    language (or patuá), a distinct Portuguese creole that developed in Macau during the Portuguese rule. Macau had its first contact with the Portuguese...
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    coexisting with many other native languages. Portuguese rule in Goa came to an end in 1961 after the annexation of Portuguese Goa by Indian armed forces. There...
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    Portuguese as an official language List of Portuguese-language poets Lusitanian language Mozambican Portuguese Portuguese language in Asia Portuguese...
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  • Portuguese in Asia may refer to: Portuguese colonization in Asia Portuguese presence in Asia Present Portuguese people who live in Asia Luso-Asians The...
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  • Korlai Portuguese is an Indo-Portuguese creole based on the Portuguese language, spoken by approximately 1,000 inhabitants of the Korlai village at the...
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    Official Portuguese territory in Asia included: Portuguese India Portuguese Ceylon Portuguese Oman Portuguese Socotra Portuguese Malacca Portuguese Timor...
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    Asia is home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the continent include...
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    Timorese Portuguese (Português timorense in Portuguese), or Nusantaran Portuguese (Português nusantarano in Portuguese), is the variety of the Portuguese language...
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    Daman and Diu Portuguese Creole, Portuguese: Língua Crioula de Damãon e Dio & by its speakers as Língua da Casa meaning "home language", refers to the...
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    Games Lusophone Lusophone music Portuguese Empire Portuguese language in Africa Portuguese language in Asia Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP)...
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  • European Portuguese words in their grammars or lexicons: Ceylon Portuguese creole (Sri Lanka) Damaon and Dio Portuguese creole Kristi language (Chaul Portuguese...
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  • "Portuguese" or "Cochin Portuguese", formed from contact between Portuguese, Malayalam and other languages spoken in old Cochin. Cochin Portuguese was one of the...
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  • level however, Portuguese is spoken by the majority. Angola does not have an official language at the federal level however, Portuguese is spoken by the...
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  • Kristang is a creole language spoken by the Kristang, a community of people of mixed Portuguese and indigenous Malay ancestry, chiefly in Malaysia (Malacca)...
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    establishment of a Portuguese Empire with trading posts, forts and colonies in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Contact between the Portuguese language and native...
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    distribution of all Portuguese-speakers or Lusophones, regardless of legislative status. Portuguese is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and...
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  • transcription delimiters. Portuguese dialects are the mutually intelligible variations of the Portuguese language in Portuguese-speaking countries and other...
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  • Indo-Portuguese, Ceylonese Portuguese Creole or Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole (SLPC) is a language spoken in Sri Lanka. While the predominant languages of...
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    officially marked the end of the Portuguese Empire and the end of colonialism in Asia. Presently, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) serves...
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  • Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro, abbreviated as PB) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language spoken natively in Brazil by...
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  • Indo-Portuguese Creole of Bombay was a creole language based on Portuguese, which grew out of the long contact between the Portuguese and local languages such...
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    America Portuguese (240 million): official in Portugal, Brazil, Portuguese-speaking Africa, Timor-Leste and Macau French (310 million): official in 26 countries...
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  • Indo-Portuguese is an Indo-Portuguese creole spoken on the Malabar coast of India. It formed from contact between the Portuguese and Malayalam languages in...
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    activities in East Asia. The language developed first mainly among the descendants of Portuguese settlers. These often married women from Portuguese Malacca...
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  • Luso-Asians (Portuguese: luso-asiáticos) are Eurasian people whose ethnicity is partially or wholly Portuguese and ancestrally are based in or hail primarily...
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    The Portuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country...
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  • Bidau Creole Portuguese, also known as Timor Pidgin was a Portuguese-based creole language that was spoken in Bidau [tet], Nain Feto, an eastern suburb...
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  • Museum of the Portuguese Language (Portuguese: Museu da Língua Portuguesa, [muˈzew dɐ ˈlĩɡwɐ poʁtuˈɡezɐ]) is an interactive Portuguese language—and Linguistics/Language...
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  • The Portuguese language developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin spoken by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd century BC. Old...
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