Macanese Patois
| Macanese Patois | |
|---|---|
| patuá | |
| Native to | Macau |
| Ethnicity | Macanese |
Native speakers | 50 in Macau (2007) perhaps hundreds or more than a thousand among the Macanese diaspora; virtually all speakers at least bilingual; total speakers: 5,000 (2007; in Macau) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mzs |
| Glottolog | maca1262 |
| ELP | Patuá |
| Linguasphere | 51-AAC-ai |
Location map of Macau | |
Macanese Patois is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Macanese patois (endonym: Patuá) is a Portuguese-based creole language with a substrate from Cantonese, Malay and Sinhala, 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.
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger classifies Patua as a "Critically Endangered" and places the number of speakers at 50 as of 2000.