The Portuguese language is spoken in Asia by small communities either in regions which formerly served as colonies to Portugal, notably Macau and East...

language Mozambican Portuguese Portuguese language in Asia Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 Portuguese poetry Portuguese at Ethnologue (25th...

Official Portuguese territory in Asia included: Portuguese India Portuguese Ceylon Portuguese Oman Portuguese Socotra Portuguese Malacca Portuguese Timor...

coexisting with many other native languages. Portuguese rule in Goa came to an end in 1961 after the liberation of Portuguese Goa by Indian armed forces. There...

language (or patuá), a distinct Portuguese creole that developed in Macau during the Portuguese rule. Macau had its first contact with the Portuguese...

Asia is home to hundreds of languages comprising several families and some unrelated isolates. The most spoken language families on the continent include...

Games Lusophone Lusophone music Portuguese Empire Portuguese language in Africa Portuguese language in Asia Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP)...

Portuguese in Asia may refer to: Portuguese colonization in Asia Portuguese presence in Asia Present Portuguese people who live in Asia Luso-Asians The...

Kristang is a creole language spoken by the Kristang, a community of people of mixed Portuguese and indigenous Malay ancestry, chiefly in Malaysia (Malacca)...

The Portuguese Empire (Portuguese: Império Português, European Portuguese: [ĩˈpɛ.ɾju puɾ.tuˈɣeʃ]), also known as the Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português)...

Korlai Portuguese is an Indo-Portuguese creole based on the Portuguese language, spoken by approximately 1,000 inhabitants of the Korlai village at the...

European Portuguese words in their grammars or lexicons: Ceylon Portuguese creole (Sri Lanka) Damaon and Dio Portuguese creole Kristi language (Chaul Portuguese...

Many Japanese words of Portuguese origin entered the Japanese language when Portuguese Jesuit priests and traders introduced Christian ideas, Western...

establishment of a Portuguese Empire with trading posts, forts and colonies in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Contact between the Portuguese language and native...

locally as "Portuguese" or "Cochin Portuguese", formed from contact between Portuguese, Malayalam and other languages spoken in old Cochin. Cochin was one of...

Timorese Portuguese (Português timorense in Portuguese), or Nusantaran Portuguese (Português nusantarano in Portuguese), is the variety of the Portuguese language...

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...

The Portuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country...

transcription delimiters. Portuguese dialects are the mutually intelligible variations of the Portuguese language in Portuguese-speaking countries and other...

Indo-Portuguese, Ceylonese Portuguese Creole or Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole (SLPC) is a language spoken in Sri Lanka. While the predominant languages of...

activities in East Asia. The language developed first mainly among the descendants of Portuguese settlers. These often married women from Portuguese Malacca...

Luso-Asians (Portuguese: luso-asiáticos) are Eurasian people whose ethnicity is partially or wholly Portuguese and ancestrally are based in or hail primarily...

all Portuguese-speakers, a.k.a. Lusophones, regardless of legislative status. The Portuguese language is one of the most widely spoken languages in the...

Galician–Portuguese, Old Galician or Old Portuguese, Medieval Galician or Medieval Portuguese when referring to the history of each modern language, was a...

Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro; [poʁtuˈɡe(j)z bɾaziˈle(j)ɾu]) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil...

Portuguese as their mother tongue after a few generations. Brazilian Portuguese is the official language of Brazil and the primary language used in most...

of") in both respective native languages and most other languages. In the pre-Islamic and early Islamic eras (c. 1000 and earlier) Central Asia was inhabited...

prenasalized stops. Sinhala words of Portuguese origin came about during the period of Portuguese colonial rule in Sri Lanka between 1505–1658. This period...

The State of India (Portuguese: Estado da Índia [ɨʃˈtaðu ðɐ ˈĩdiɐ]), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Portuguese: Estado Português da India...

native language of approximately 74,000 people, mainly in urban areas. A handful of the 3,400 people of Portuguese descent speak Sri Lankan Portuguese creole...