Patua is ‘critically endangered’: study
Patua, Macau’s Portuguese-Asian creole, is “critically endangered”, a recently published study reaffirms.According to the study entitled “Contact languages around the world and their levels of endangerment” by Singapore-based linguist Nala H. Lee, fewer than 50 people speak Patua (in Macau) so that “on the scale of absolute number of speakers”, the language is “severely endangered.The study finds that Patua, the language of the Macanese community, is “critically endangered”
February 26, 2018 | BY admin