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Portunol

Portunol
 n.— «The team adopted “what they called Portunol, a hybrid of Spanish and Portugese.” » —“Loner, and a team man too” by D. Murali The Hindu Business Line (Chennai, India) May 31, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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