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| Macanese Portuguese | |
|---|---|
| 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.
- ^ Portuguese (China-Macau) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ "Resultados globais dos Intercensos 2016" (in Portuguese). Macau: Direcção dos Serviços de Estatística e Censos. Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2024.