Portuguese The smaller foothold the Portuguese had in wider India had linguistic effects. Gujarati took up a number of words, while elsewhere the influence was great enough to the extent that creole languages came to be (see Portuguese India, Portuguese-based creole languages in India and Sri Lanka). Comparatively, the impact of Portuguese has been greater on coastal languages and their loans tend to be closer to the Portuguese originals. The source dialect of these loans imparts an earlier pronunciation of ch as an affricate instead of the current standard of .
Portuguese The smaller foothold the Portuguese had in wider India had linguistic effects Gujarati took up a number of words while elsewhere the influence was great enough to the extent that creole languages came to be (see Portuguese India Portuguese-based creole languages in India and Sri Lanka) Comparatively the impact of Portuguese has been greater on coastal languages and their loans tend to be closer to the Portuguese originals The source dialect of these loans imparts an earlier pronunciation of ch as an affricate instead of the current standard of 