Daman and Diu Portuguese Creole

Daman and Diu Portuguese
Daman and Diu Portuguese
Língua da Casa
Native to	India
Region	Damaon, Diu & Silvassa, especially in the Damaon and Diu districts.
Native speakers	4,000 in Daman district and ca. 180 in Diu district (2010)
Language family	Portuguese creole Indo-Portuguese Northern Indo-Portuguese Daman and Diu Portuguese; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	dama1278
Linguasphere	51-AAC-agb
IETF	idb-u-sd-indh
	Damao and Diu in the Indian Union.

The 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 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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