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Macanese Portuguese
Form of Portuguese language used in Macau / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Portuguese-based creole, see Macanese Patois.
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.