Macanese Portuguese | |
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português macaense | |
![]() Bilingual sign in Macau | |
Native speakers | 6,200 in Macau (2014)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
IETF | pt-MO |
Macanese Portuguese (Portuguese: português macaense) is a Portuguese dialect spoken in Macau, where Portuguese is co-official with Cantonese. Macanese Portuguese is spoken, to some degree either natively or as a second language, by roughly 2.3%[2] of the population of Macau. It should not be confused with Macanese language (or patuá), a distinct Portuguese creole that developed in Macau during the Portuguese rule.