Patuá: OverviewPatuá: Visão geral Over four centuries, the Portuguese who settled in Macau evolved their own language, the Macau patuá, a dialect of Portuguese with some archaic Portuguese words, infusions from the Malay peninsula, Sinhalese and Cantonese, a smattering from English and even Dutch. That so-called Creole language was discouraged in schools, being seen as […]
Culture Cultura For four centuries the Portuguese settlement in Macau was an important missionary base and the centre of trade with China and Japan, a place that was vibrant, exciting and rich. Merchants and adventurers of many nations were drawn there, making Macau a melting-pot of cultures — based on Portuguese, but with contributions from
Patuá PoemsPoemas em Patuá The eminent scholar, José “Adé” dos Santos Ferreira, wrote many works on the patuá; in his booklet Papiá Cristám di Macau he included a dictionary. At the start of each letter of the alphabet was a patuá poem and its Portuguese translation. These have been collated and reproduced here, with an English translation.O
BooksLivros e-Bookse-LivrosJ Dyer Ball, Macao the Holy CityJ Dyer Ball, Macao the Holy City (Macau, a Cidade Santa)JP Braga, The Portuguese in Hongkong and China: their beginning, settlement and progress during one hundred years Macau, Fundação Macau, 1998 – First published 1944JP Braga, The Portuguese in Hongkong and China: their beginning, settlement and progress during one
Talu Jorge Remedios.The basic requirements are just two sticks: a ‘bat’ about 18 inches long and a talu or peewee which is a wooden dowel about 1 inch in diameter and 3 to 5 inches long, sharpened at both ends.The batter begins by flicking the talu with the bat from a hole in the ground
Pastimes by Frederic A. “Jim” da Silva Edited extract of an article, Times Past and Pastimes Some old childhood games of Hong Kong are now obsolete or forgotten, but some others remain – marbles, for instance. As children, we had different games involving marbles. There was the traditional game with marbles placed in a ring drawn in
Macanese language Jorge RemediosMacanese or Macao Creole (Patuá to its speakers) is a creole language derived mainly from Malay, Sinhalese, Cantonese, and Portuguese, which was originally spoken by the Macanese community of the Portuguese colony of Macao. It is now spoken by only a few families in Macao and in the Macanese diaspora. The language
ConsoadaChristmas Eve SupperMeno Baptista Filhos de Macau of pre-Vatican 2 era took their religious obligations very seriously, religiously observing all the Holy Days of Obligations, abstaining from eating meat on Fridays and other proscribed days, confessing and receiving the Eucharist at least once a year as required by Church law. They attended, en masse, the
THE BURIAL AT SEAby Bernardino de Senna Fernandes (Riri) d’AssumpçãoEdited extract from an unpublished book of anecdotesAccording to my grandfather, his first trip to the Far East was quite uneventful until the warship reached the Indian Ocean. It was then that, probably because of the heat, a member of the crew suffered a severe fit
TOOT-TOOTBernardino de Senna Fernandes (Riri) d’AssumpçãoEdited extract from an unpublished book of anecdotes (I hesitated to include it in this website, in fear that it might cause offence to people who suffer from stuttering, but decided to go ahead because the article does not ridicule but rather sympathises with them. – HA d’Assumpção)In the old
