“E Canta Contigo Moresco” - Portuguese Songs Are Still Sung in Java - Maria de Jesus Espada

The history of the Portuguese presence in Asia has been the subject of study of numerous analysts from various perspectives. It is well known that during just a few years Portuguese had managed to create several commercial, political, and administrative establishments. This was only possible through the displacement of people to fill in the administrative positions, but also to guarantee the safety of the establishment

This paper focuses on how the rise of these posts and trading centers resulted in the birth of Creole communities, namely one residing in Tugu, in Indonesia, characterized by a unique culture embedded from a linguistic point of view in songs, poems, proverbs and legends, which point to a Portuguese linkage, although without chronological precision. To understand this, we must bear in mind that language is the offset for the s ...