Malaccan Creole Portuguese

Facts

  • Language: Malaccan Creole Portuguese
  • Alternate names: Malaysian Creole Portuguese, Malaccan, Papia Kristang, Kristang, Portuguese Patois, Serani, Bahasa Serani, Bahasa Geragau, Malaqueiro, Malaquense, Malaquês, Malaquenho, Português de Malaca, Malayo-Portuguese, Moluccas Pidgin
  • Language code: mcm
  • Language family: Indo-European, Classical Indo-European, Italic, Latino-Faliscan, Latinic, Imperial Latin, Romance, Italo-Western Romance, Western Romance, Shifted Western Romance, Southwestern Shifted Romance, West Ibero-Romance, Galician Romance, Macro-Portuguese, Luso-Asian Creole
  • Creole language
  • Number of speakers: ~2,150
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script:

More information:

    Ethnic autonym: Kristang (or Papia Cristao), also name for religion. Variety in Pulau Tikus spoken more in 1997 than in 1987.

    Malaccan Creole Portuguese is spoken in Malaysia, Southeast Asia.