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Patuá – Redirecionamento

Patuá – Redirecionamento Ao longo de quatro séculos, os portugueses que se instalaram no território de Macau, evoluiu sua própria língua, o território de Macau, tais como: patuá, um dialeto do português com infusões da península Malaia, Cingalês e Cantonês, com um punhado de inglês e até mesmo o holandês.  o facto de a chamada […]

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Patua Primer

Introduction to the Patuá by “Riri” d’Assumpção from unpublished Anecdotes from Old Macau. Personal Pronouns English Ithou/youhe/shewethee/youthey Portuguese eutu/vosele/elanosvoseles/elas Patuá yow vos/vocehele/elanos/nosotrovosotroolotro Tenses Tenses were generated simply with a prefix: for the past tense, ja  from the Portuguese word já = already; for the present tense, ta (short for Portuguese está); and for the future tense, logo  (from the Portuguese logo = “soon”, but pronounced more like

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Patua Intro

Patuá: Introduction The Macanese patois (patuá in Portuguese, papiá Macaísta or papiá Cristám in Macanese) is one of the so-called Creole languages which are broadly described as stable languages that evolved from several influences. It is based on Portuguese with admixtures mainly of Malay, Sinhalese and Cantonese. In some sense the patuá was a primitive language and

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Patua

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