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Macanese or Macau Creole (known as 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 Macau. It is now spoken by a few families in Macau and in the Macanese diaspora. On February 20, 2009, the new edition of UNESCO’s Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger classified Patua as a critically endangered language. The Atlas puts the number of Patua speakers at 50 as of the year 2000. The language is also called by its speakers Papia Cristam di Macau (Christian speech of Macau), and has been nicknamed Dóci Língu di Macau (Sweet Language of Macau) and Doci Papiaçam (sweet speech) by poets. In Portuguese it is called Macaense, Macaista Chapado (pure Macanese), or Patuá.
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