Portuguese language in Africa the various Portuguese creoles that have developed there. These creole languages co-exist with Portuguese and, in the countries where they are spoken, form a continuum with the lexifying language. In Cape Verde, refers to a variety of Cape Verdean Creole which takes on various features of Portuguese and is a result of processes of decreolization in the archipelago. In São Tome e Principe, Santomense Portuguese is a variety of Portuguese strongly influenced by Forro in syntax and vocabulary. Since the lexicons of those languages are derived from Portuguese, even creole-speakers who do not speak Portuguese have a passive knowledge of
Panicker romanising Malayalam without diacritic marks, the name would be "Panikkar". However, Panikker, Panicker, Panickar, Paniker, Panikar, Panniker, and Pannikavannar, and other variants are found. Panicker Panicker (sometimes Panikkar) is an Indian title or last name. The "Dravidian Etymological Dictionary", entry number 3884, considers the word Panikkan as a word of Dravidian etymology, deriving from the Dravidian root word "Pani", meaning service, work etc. Panikkan could mean a person who commands as well as one who serves. The "DED" traces cognates of the word "Panikkan" in twelve Dravidian languages, besides Malayalam. The Portuguese traveller Duarte Barbosa said that "They are the