Macanese Portuguese

E541755

Portuguese-based language variety contact variety heritage language variety of Portuguese

Macanese Portuguese is a distinctive variety of Portuguese historically spoken in Macau, shaped by extensive contact with Cantonese and other Asian and European languages.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Macanese Patuá	1
Macanese Portuguese canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Portuguese-based language variety ⓘ contact variety ⓘ heritage language ⓘ variety of Portuguese ⓘ
associatedWithEthnicGroup	Macanese people NERFINISHED ⓘ
closelyRelatedTo	European Portuguese ⓘ
coexistedWith	Cantonese in Macau NERFINISHED ⓘ English in Macau NERFINISHED ⓘ Macanese Patois in Macau ⓘ Standard Portuguese in Macau NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	China ⓘ
developedThrough	language contact in Macau ⓘ
differsFrom	Brazilian Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ Standard European Portuguese ⓘ
hasFeature	code-switching with Cantonese ⓘ lexical borrowings from Cantonese ⓘ loanwords from English ⓘ loanwords from Malay ⓘ loanwords from other Asian languages ⓘ phonological influence from Cantonese ⓘ
hasSociolinguisticRole	marker of Macanese identity ⓘ
historicallySpokenIn	Macau NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalPeriodOfFlourishing	Portuguese colonial period in Macau ⓘ
influencedBy	Cantonese NERFINISHED ⓘ English NERFINISHED ⓘ Macanese Patois NERFINISHED ⓘ Malay ⓘ Sinhala NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish NERFINISHED ⓘ other Asian languages ⓘ other European languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Ibero-Romance languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages Portuguese language NERFINISHED ⓘ Romance languages ⓘ Western Romance languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
region	Pearl River Delta NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedConcept	Macanese Patois NERFINISHED ⓘ Macanese people NERFINISHED ⓘ Portuguese language in Asia ⓘ
specialCaseOf	Portuguese as used in former colonies ⓘ
spokenIn	Macau NERFINISHED ⓘ
status	declining use ⓘ endangered ⓘ
usedBy	bilingual speakers of Portuguese and Cantonese ⓘ
usedInDomain	community life of Macanese people ⓘ family communication ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Asian Portuguese → hasDialect → Macanese Portuguese ⓘ

Portuguese Creole → hasSubgroup → Macanese Portuguese ⓘ

this entity surface form: Macanese Patuá