Cochin Portuguese Creole

Extinct creole language of India

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Cochin Indo-Portuguese
Vypin Indo-Portuguese
Native to	Portuguese Creole Indo-Portuguese Creoles Cochin Indo-Portuguese
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	mala1544  Malabar–Sri Lanka Portuguese
ELP	Malabar Indo-Portuguese Creole

Cochin Indo-Portuguese, also known as Vypin Indo-Portuguese from its geographic centre, is an

Cochin Indo-Portuguese, known locally as "Portuguese" or "Cochin Portuguese", formed from contact between Portuguese, Malayalam and other languages spoken in old Cochin.^[1] Cochin was one of the first contact languages to spring up from European contact in Asia, and it became the mother tongue of part of the local Catholic community in the 15th to 19th centuries. It emerged from Catholic Indo-Portuguese households in Malabar, and it became sufficiently established that it continued under German occupation in the 17th century. Speakers started shifting away from the language around the turn of the 19th century. The last native speaker, William Rozario, died on 20 August 2010 in Vypeen.^[1] Some in Cochin still understand it to a degree.

Examples

Portuguese and Malayalam Influence

Both Portuguese and Malayalam have had significant influences in Malabar Indo-Portuguese. The verb tæ, for example, borrows its semantic context from other Portuguese verbs, namely from the verbs ter (have) and estar (be). Conversely, the verb's morphosyntactic and semantic constructions were influenced greatly by Malayalam.^[2]

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