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Name:
Macanese
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Macao Creole Portuguese; Macaense
Spoken in:
China
Number of speakers:
4,000 (Voegelin and Voegelin 1977). Ethnic population: 8,500 (1985)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
50
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
4000
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
mzs
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Pidgins and Creoles
Parent Subgroup:
Portuguese based (spbc)
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Macanese
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