Bidau Creole Portuguese

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Bidau Creole Portuguese
Spoken in: Bidau, Dili, East Timor
Language extinction: 1960s
Language family: Creole language
 Portuguese Creole
  Malayo-Portuguese Creole
   Bidau Creole Portuguese
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: cpp
ISO 639-3: tvy

Bidau Creole Portuguese (Português de Bidau) was a Portuguese-based creole language that was spoken in Bidau, an eastern suburb of Dili, East Timor until the 1960s, when the speakers shifted to standard Portuguese.

Bidau Creole Portuguese grew out of the Portuguese spoken by settlers and Mestiços from Flores Island, influenced by languages introduced to the area by military men from Lifau. It shares a number of features with nearby creoles such as Macanese.