Portuguese Launches New Macau Creole Dictionary Threatened to Extinction

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The Portuguese researcher Raul Leal Gaião today released a new dictionary of the Creole of Macau, the Patuá, which is severely threatened with extinction, according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Although the Patuá is already not exactly a living language, Gaião said he hopes that the work . . awakens interest in the language so that it continues to be studied and understood, especially by the new generatio…