Macao dialect.
Macau dialect (called Ba Du in Portuguese) is a dialect of Macau, which is a mixture of Portuguese, Malay, Cantonese, English, ancient Portuguese and a few Dutch, Spanish and Italian. It used to be the common language used by Portuguese locals in Macao, but now it has almost disappeared. The last Portuguese writer born and raised in Macao who wrote in Macao dialect was Joseph Santos Ferreira.
Macau refers to China and Macau. In English, Macao is Macao, and in Portuguese, Macao is also Macao. Macao is called Macao for short, and its full name is People's Republic of China (PRC) Macao Special Administrative Region, which is located in the south of China. It borders Gongbei, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province in the north, faces Wanchai and Hengqin in Zhuhai City in the west, and faces Hong Kong and Shenzhen across the sea in the east. 60 kilometers apart, south of the South China Sea in China.
Macao is an international free port, a world tourism and leisure center, one of the four largest gambling cities in the world, and one of the regions with the highest population density in the world. Its famous light industry, tourism, hotels and casinos have made Macao prosperous and become one of the developed and wealthy regions in the world.
The language of Macao
The official languages of Macao are Chinese and Portuguese. In 200 1 year, 85.7% of Macao residents spoke Cantonese, 4% spoke Min dialect, 3.2% spoke Mandarin and 2.7% spoke other Chinese dialects. The population using Portuguese is 0.6%; The rest of the population use English (1.5%), Tagalog (1.3%) and other languages.
Macau dialect (called Ba Du in Portuguese) is a dialect of Macau, which is a mixture of Portuguese, Malay, Cantonese, English, ancient Portuguese and a few Dutch, Spanish and Italian. It used to be the common language used by Portuguese locals in Macao, but now it has almost disappeared. The last Portuguese writer born and raised in Macao who wrote in Macao dialect was Joseph Santos Ferreira.