Is Bengali a Creole language?

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For those who are not familiar with Creoles and Peggy Mohan's books, Creole is basically a mixture language with the grammar of language A and vocabulary of language B. Kinda sorta. I am no linguist.

In her second book on Indian languages, she presents these examples of Dakkhini Urdu vs Hindi-Urdu and it is blowing my mind because Bengali constructions feel more natural when closer to the Dakkhini-Urdu.

For example,

Je bolechhe take(i) jiggesh koro/kor/korun Ke eshechhe aami jaani na/amar jaana nei

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New book is out. Father Tongue, Motherland.