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Hugo Schuchardt is credited as one of the pioneers in the study of creole languages, having published linguistic descriptions of many and inspired others (such as Sebastião Dalgado) to do likewise. While Hugo Schuchardt’s range of interests was extremely vast, he was particularly intent on determining the distribution of Portuguese-based creoles in Asia. In fact, these languages feature prominently in his scholarly production of the 1880s, which included articles on the creoles of Cochin (1882), Diu (1883a), Mangalore (1883b), Mahé and Cannanore (1889a), Batavia and Tugu (1890), and on Indo-Portuguese [i.e. Asian-Portuguese] in general (1889b).
In order to collect linguistic data, Schuchardt resorted to a wide network of informants who posted information from the field; as a result, his personal archive held at the University of Graz is a treasure trove of data about the languages he worked on. With respect to Asian-Portuguese, a great deal of it was transcribed and analysed in his published studies, but there is still much that remains unpublished.
The letters in Schuchardt’s collection account for the presence and status of Asian-Portuguese creoles not only in places for which there is a significant amount of old and/or recent evidence (e.g. Diu, the Malabar/Kerala, Ceylon/Sri Lanka, Malacca, Macau) but also in less well-documented – or otherwise entirely undocumented – locations from which the languages have since disappeared. In this talk, we will explore the contribution of Schuchardt’s archive for the documentation of Asian-Portuguese Creoles in these more obscure places: the Coromandel/Tamil Nadu (Pondicherry, Tranquebar, Mylapore, and Madras/Chennai), the Bengal region (including modern-day Bangladesh), Burma/Myanmar, and the Indonesian island of Flores.
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Schuchardt, H. (1882) Kreolische Studien II. Über das Indoportugiesische von Cochim. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien (Philosophisch-historische Klasse) 102: 799-816.
Schuchardt, H. (1883a) Kreolische Studien III. Über das Indoportugiesische von Diu. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien (philosophisch-historische Klasse) 103: 3-18.
Schuchardt, H. (1883b). Kreolische Studien VI. Über das Indoportugiesische von Mangalore. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien (Philosophisch-historische Klasse), 105(III): 882-904.
Schuchardt, H. (1889a) Beiträge zur Kenntnis des kreolischen Romanisch: VI. Zum Indoportugiesischen von Mahé und Cannanore. Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 13: 516-524.
Schuchardt, H. (1889b) Beiträge zur Kenntnis des creolischen Romanisich. V. Allgemeineres über das Indoportugiesische (Asioportugiesische). Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie 13: 476-516.
Schuchardt, H. (1890). Kreolische Studien IX. Über das Malaioportugiesische von Batavia und Tugu. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien (philosophisch-historische Klasse) 122(9): 1-256.
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Línguas crioulas Português asiático Arquivos Contacto de línguas Linguística Índia
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Cardoso, Hugo C. 2015. ‘Schuchardt’s archive and the ‘lost’ Asian-Portuguese creoles’, Joint meeting of the SPCL and ACBLPE, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria, July 7th, 2015