Daman-Diu Portuguese
Daman-Diu Portuguese is an Indo-European language spoken in India, by about 4,180 people. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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The Daman and Diu Portuguese Creole, Portuguese: Língua Crioula de Damão e Dio & by its speakers as Língua da Casa meaning "home language"; refers to the variety of Indo-Portuguese creole spoken in the Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (Damaon territory), in the northern Konkan region of India. Before the Indian annexation of the territory, the creole spoken by the Damanese natives underwent a profound decreolisation in the erstwhile Portuguese Goa and Damaon colony, a phenomenon whereby the Indo-Portuguese creole reconverged with European Portuguese.
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Words in Daman-Diu Portuguese
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| man | homm | |
| woman | mulher | |
| person | piso* | |
| name | nom* | |
| eye | oL* | |
| ear | uvid* | |
| nose | naris* | |
| tooth | dent* | |
| tongue | liN* | |
| hand | maw* | |
| blood | saiN* | |
| bone | os* | |
| skin | pel* | |
| knee | inveL* | |
| breast | pet* | |
| liver | fig* | |
| water | ag | |
| fire | fog* | |
| sun | sol* | |
| star | istrel* | |
| stone | pEd* | |
| mountain | oyter* | |
| leaf | fol* | |
| night | anot* | |
| dog | kaw* | |
| fish | peS* | |
| louse | pyoL* | |
| one | u* | |
| two | doy* | |
| I | io* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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