Patuá
Facts
- Language: Patuá
- Alternate names: Macao Creole Portuguese, Macaense, Macanese, Maquista, Makista, 澳門土生葡語
- Language code: mzs
- 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: ~ 50
- Vulnerability: Endangered
- Script:
More information:
A creole that blends Portuguese (See: [[Portuguese]]) with Cantonese (See: [[Chinese, Yue]]) and Malay, plus traces of Hindi (See: [[Hindi]]), Japanese (See: [[Japanese]]) and the languages of other stops on Portuguese trade routes during the past few centuries.
derived from Kristang, the Portuguese creole of Malacca