Patuá
[别称 Macao Creole Portuguese, Macaense, Macanese]语系:Pidgin or Creole
·极危
语系:Pidgin or Creole
·极危
Macao Creole Portuguese, Macaense, Macanese, Maquista, Makista, 澳門土生葡語 |
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Pidgin or Creole, Portuguese based |
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Latin scripts |
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ISO 639-3 |
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mzs |
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文件格式: csv |
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信息不完整 “personal communication on Patuá” . David Bradley (March 31, 2014)
60,000 (10,000 in Macao, China; 50,000 elsewhere)
around fifty fluent speakers remains in Macao, mostly females againg over 50; also some semispeakers and passive learners
revitalization since 2007 through cultural activities such as food, song, music, dance and sport
Cantonese; Portuguese; Mandarin; English
Cantonese as the local language in Macao and Hong Kong; Mandarin and Portuguese as the official languages of Macao; English being diglossic high in Macao and Hong Kong; some ethnic immigrants in Portugal; A majority of overseas ethnic Patuá living in US and Canada.
well-documented: two dictionaries (Senna Fernandes & Baxter 2001; Alan Baxter 2004) and some other studies; has its written literature and song lyrics since 1950
overseas ethnic Patuá in US, Canada and Portugal; native speakers found mainly in Macao (China), with a few in Hong Kong (China)
信息不完整 “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
8,500
Data for the number of native speakers comes from Voegelin and Voegelin (1977). Data for the ethnic population was gathered in 1985.
信息不完整 “East and Southeast Asia” (349-424) . David Bradley (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
Now the object of folkloristic interest among the remaining community; formerly also spoken by the Catholic Portuguese creole community in Hong Kong. For centuries of Portuguese rule, there was continuous decreolisation towards Portuguese. Speakers also use Cantonese Chinese, which is the source of substantial lexical material; there is also Malay and Indian lexicon reflecting the connection with Kristang and other Portuguese Creoles further west.
Macao
Over 10,000 members of this group, but only about 5,000 remain in Macao since its return to China in 1999.