It formed from contact between the Portuguese and Malayalam languages in Indo-Portuguese households in the city of Kannur.
The direct Portuguese political and cultural influence ended in 1663 when the Dutch took the fort.
[2] Finally, this location fell under British hands in 1792, which kept the power until the second half of the 20th century.
According to Baldaeus (1703),[3] by the time of the Dutch conquest, the fort could accommodate about 250 men and in the village there were about 70 Christian families, either Eurasian or native.
[4] Kannur and Sri Lanka creole share a similar historical background but differ in the substrate language, the community size, and the territorial size.