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Preferred term

mzsMacanese  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Macanese or Macau Creole (known as Patuá to its speakers) is a creole language derived mainly from Malay, Sinhalese, Cantonese, and Portuguese, which was originally spoken by the Macanese community of the Portuguese colony of Macau. It is now spoken by a few families in Macau and in the Macanese diaspora.

Entry terms

  • Macanese language

ISO 639-3 code

  • mzs

Notation

  • mzs

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URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/mzs

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