Bidau Creole Portuguese was a

Portuguese-based creole language Portuguese creoles are creole languages which have Portuguese language, Portuguese as their substantial lexifier. The most widely-spoken creoles influenced by Portuguese are Cape Verdean Creole, Guinea-Bissau Creole and Papiamento. Origins Por ...

that was spoken in , Nain Feto, an eastern suburb of Dili,

East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-west ...

. Bidau Creole Portuguese is believed to have grown out of the Portuguese spoken by settlers and '' mestiços'' from Flores Island, influenced by languages introduced to the area by

military A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...

men from

Lifau Lifau is a village and suco in the East Timor exclave of Oecusse District. The village is located west of the mouth of the Tono River. 1,938 people live in the suco. History Lifau was the first European settlement on the island of Timor. Do ...

. It shares a number of features with nearby creoles such as Macanese.

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The Languages of East Timor
Portuguese-based pidgins and creoles Languages of East Timor Languages extinct in the 1960s Dili Municipality Portuguese language in Asia {{Pidgincreole-lang-stub