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Cochin Portuguese Creole information


Cochin Indo-Portuguese
Vypin Indo-Portuguese
Native toIndia
RegionKochi
Extinct20 August 2010, with the death of William Rozario[1]
Language family
Portuguese Creole
  • Indo-Portuguese Creoles
    • Cochin Indo-Portuguese
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologmala1544  Malabar–Sri Lanka Portuguese
ELPMalabar Indo-Portuguese Creole

Cochin Indo-Portuguese, also known as Vypin Indo-Portuguese from its geographic centre, is an Indo-Portuguese creole spoken on the Malabar coast of India, particularly in Fort Cochin, in the state of Kerala. The last person who spoke it as a first language, William Rozario, died in 2010. It is now spoken by Christian families in an around Vypeen Island (Vypin Island) and other areas of the Kochi metropolitan area.

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