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There are more than 10 different Portuguese-based Creole languages. You'd have to be more specific:

1. Guinea-Bissau Creole (Kriol): lingua franca of Guinea-Bissau, also spoken in Casamance, Senegal and in Gambia.

2. Cape Verdean Creole (Kriolu, Kriol): a dialect continuum spoken on the islands of Cape Verde, with some decreolization.

3. Angolar (Ngola, N'góla): in coastal areas of São Tomé Island.

4. Annobonese (Fá d'Ambô): in Annobón Island.

5. Forro: in São Tomé.

6. Principense (Lunguyê) (almost extinct): in Príncipe Island.

7. Papiamento: spoken in Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao; Portuguese/Spanish (60%), Dutch (25%), African languages and Arawak (15%).

8. Saramaccan: spoken in Suriname; English, Portuguese, African languages (20%).

9. Diu Indo-Portuguese (almost extinct): in Diu.

10. Daman Indo-Portuguese (Língua da Casa): in Daman.

11. Kristi: in Korlai, Maharashtra.

12. Sri Lanka Indo-Portuguese: around Batticaloa and Trincomalee (Portuguese Burghers) and Puttalam (Kaffirs).

13. Kristang (Cristão): in Malacca (Malaysia) and Singapore.

14. Mardijker (extinct in 19th century): by the Mardijker people of Batavia (Jakarta).

15. Papiá Tugu (extinct in 1978): in Tugu, Indonesia.

16. Portugis (extinct around 1950): in the Ambon, Ternate islands and Minahasa, Indonesia

Bidau Portuguese (extinct in the 1960s): in the Bidau area of Dili, East Timor.

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