Portuguese Creole Portuguese Creole Angolar, also Ngola (called lunga n'golá) is minority language of São Tomé and Príncipe, spoken in the southernmost towns of Sao Tomé island and sparsely along the coast. It is a creole language, based partially on Portuguese with a heavy substrate of a dialect of Umbundo, a Bantu language from inland Angola. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angolar language"
The Annobonese language, called by its speakers fá d'Ambô or fla d'Ambu, is spoken by 9,000 in the Ano Bom and Fernando Póo Islands off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, mostly by people of mixed African, Spanish, and Portuguese descent.. ...more on Wikipedia about "Annobonese language"
The Brava Crioulo (crioulo de Brava in Portuguese) is the variant of Capeverdean creole spoken in the Brava Island of Cape Verde. It belongs to the Sotavento (Kriolu) branch of the phylum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brava Crioulo language"
Burgher is the name of a Eurasian people and, less commonly, a Creole language based on Portuguese. In Sri Lanka the term is used to identify people of this community. English is the mother tongue of the Burghers of Sri Lanka. See Portuguese Creole. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burgher people"
Cafundo is a so-called anti-Creole from a rural African community from Cafundó, 150km from São Paulo (city). It is a secret language, spoken by some (40 in 1978). The population is bilingual with Portuguese. It was first thought to be an African language but later study (1986) by Carlos Vogt and Peter Fry indicated that it could be an Anti-Creole, as it presents similarities with the Caipira variety (the Portuguese dialect of Brasil's São Paulo countryside, South of Minas Gerais and North of Paraná). Cafundó posesses Portuguese morphological and syntactic framework with some Bantu lexicon, the opposite of a Creole language. In Brazil there is very little left of Portuguese Creoles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cafundo"
The Capeverdean Crioulo is a dialect continuum spoken on the islands of Cape Verde, whose extremes lie at the islands of Santiago and that of Santo Antão. They are creole languages based on Portuguese and influenced by West African languages . ...more on Wikipedia about "Capeverdean Crioulo languages"
The Daman Indo-Portuguese language or Daman Portuguese creole, called by its speakers língua da casa ( Portuguese for "Home language") is spoken in Daman. It is a creole language based on Portuguese and local Indian languages. It is of the few Portuguese creoles still spoken in South Asia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daman Indo-Portuguese language"
Diu Indo-Portuguese is a Portuguese Creole spoken in Daman and Diu, India. It is rapidly disappearing because Gujarati is more widely spoken and is the main language of education there. Only the less educated elder members of the community speak it at home. In the past there was a vibrant community of Portuguese-Indians who spoke it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Diu Indo-Portuguese"
The Diu Indo-Portuguese language or Diu Portuguese Creole (in Portuguese língua dos velhos, "Elder's Language") was spoken in Diu, India. It is a creole based on Portuguese and a local language ...more on Wikipedia about "Diu Indo-Portuguese language"
Forro is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Forro language"
Kriol (crioulo in Portuguese) is a language spoken by 60% of the population of Guinea-Bissau, where it is the lingua franca, and also in Senegal. It is a Portuguese-based creole language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guinea-Bissau Kriol language"
Papiá Kristang ("Christian language") is a creole language. It is spoken by the Kristang, a community of people of mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry, chiefly in Malacca ( Malaysia) and Singapore. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kristang language"
The Macanese language (Patuá to its speakers, Macaista Chapado in portuguese) was originally spoken in Macau, mainly by people of partial Portuguese ancestry ( Macaneses). It is now spoken by only a few families in Macau and in the Macaense diaspora. ...more on Wikipedia about "Macanese language"
Norteiro is the Portuguese language term for people belonging to former Portuguese Exclave in the western littoral of South Asia, which included islands such as the islands of Bom Bahia (modern Bombay), the Island of Salsette, Dharavi Island, New Bombay, Chaul- Revdanda, Baçaim, Damaõ, and Dio (i.e. " Diu") located across the Gulf of Cambay. ...more on Wikipedia about "Norteiro people"
Papiamento or Papiamentu is the primary language spoken on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire (the so-called ABC islands). It is also well known by people in Saba, St Eustatius, and the Sint Maarten islands. ...more on Wikipedia about "Papiamento"
Portuguese creoles are creole languages which have been significantly influenced by Portuguese. ...more on Wikipedia about "Portuguese Creole"
The Principense language, called lunguyê ("Language of the Island") by its speakers, is is spoken in a community of couple of thousand speakers in São Tomé and Príncipe, but today is mostly spoken by some elderly women, almost all of them on the island of Príncipe. Today, most of the community in the island speaks Portuguese, and some also speak Forro. ...more on Wikipedia about "Principense language"
Sri Lanka Indo-Portuguese or Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole is a language spoken in Sri Lanka. It is a creole language based on Tamil with a lexicon substantially taken from Portuguese. The language was a lingua franca in the island for 350 years (From 16th to mid-19th century). ...more on Wikipedia about "Sri Lanka Indo-Portuguese language"
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