With close to 200 speakers, the Indo-Portuguese Creole of Diu is currently spoken by a fraction of the island’s population and, despite a centuries-old history, has been largely unacknowledged. In the last decade, it was the object of linguistic documentation and description, making it available to researchers in the field of Creole Studies. Before that, however, the only significant source of linguistic information was a seminal 1883 article by Hugo Schuchardt, all the more relevant by the fact that it was one of the first publications dedicated to a creole by the pioneer of Creole Studies. To write it, Schuchardt relied on data obtained through a vast network of correspondents scattered across the globe. The recent edition of Schuchardt’s letter and manuscript archive, a collective effort coordinated by the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Graz, now makes it possible to reconstruct nineteenth-century interest in this language and ensuing scholarly debates. Here, we explore this archive and complementary sources to: (a) retrace Schuchardt’s steps in search of adequate informants; (b) observe Schuchardt’s process of data collection and analysis; (c) recover the opinions of several interlocutors about the status of Diu Creole; and (d) reconstruct the impact of the article’s publication.

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Hugo Schuchardt 档案中的 Diu 克里奥尔语

Diu 的印度-葡萄牙克里奥尔语有近 200 名使用者，目前该岛的一小部分人口使用这种语言，尽管有着数百年的历史，但在很大程度上未被承认。在过去十年中，它是语言文献和描述的对象，使其可供克里奥尔语研究领域的研究人员使用。然而，在此之前，唯一重要的语言信息来源是 Hugo Schuchardt 于 1883 年发表的一篇开创性的文章，更重要的是，它是克里奥尔研究先驱致力于克里奥尔语的首批出版物之一。为了写这篇文章，舒查特依赖于通过遍布全球的庞大通讯员网络获得的数据。舒查特的信件和手稿档案的最新版本，由格拉茨大学语言学研究所协调的一项集体努力，现在使重建 19 世纪对这种语言的兴趣和随后的学术辩论成为可能。在这里，我们探索这个档案和补充来源：(a) 追溯 Schuchardt 的步骤以寻找足够的线人；(b) 观察 Schuchardt 的数据收集和分析过程；(c) 收回若干对话者对 Diu Creole 地位的意见；(d) 重构文章发表的影响。(c) 收回若干对话者对 Diu Creole 地位的意见；(d) 重构文章发表的影响。(c) 收回若干对话者对 Diu Creole 地位的意见；(d) 重构文章发表的影响。