Saving Macau’s Dying Language 

a queen

Power move lol

Ikr

savage vavó (granny)

好啊！👌！( English: okay!好!)

Deaf person: i get it, Sign language. (Joke)

Darksouls?

It's always super sad when a language dies.

@Shin Ju Kim 1. People can speak more than one language and do so all the fucking time. 2. Different languages can describe various things and ideas far more effectively than others. 3. Do you not know how languages evolve or are you just an idiot. 4. Stop simping for information entropy.

@Shin Ju Kim then you are a sheltered moron.

@@boobalooux Could I join?

@@boobalooux @AJGC2 :) thank you mate

@@MoabOliveira11 It is!

@@boobalooux ooh that’s great! I don’t know Portuguese but I’m extremely curious nonetheless s

Hi, I am from Macau. Do not worry, Portuguese culture is far from gone in Macau! Many Macanese are Catholic, adopt Portuguese names for non-Chinese purposes and we all learn Portuguese in school. Us Macanese adore Portuguese food, and everywhere you go in Macau (literally every meter) there is a Portuguese restaurant. We also have our own special Macanese food. Many of us also have Portuguese passports!Although the mixed-race is dying, pure Portuguese culture is still alive and well. Although we are also proud to be Chinese (and we are racially Chinese) as well

Also, a lot of the people in Macau watch RTP (done so since they started operating in Macau in 1963) to get the news from Portugal. I remember watching the ladies from Miss Macau 1996 visit Lisbon on RTP 1 and cheering at the television that we finally got some recognition haha...

@@x6621 Oh, I didn't get notified 2 weeks ago, sorry! But thank you for the comment, I really loved your update! It makes me glad that it's still alive. I also did expect you to be proud of being chinese aswell :) I was born and raised in Lisbon, but my parents are from northern Portugal, and I love both. Although the difference between Macanese and Chinese is probably much bigger than regional differences in Portugal, I can still relate and understand that you love both cultures :) they both belong to you I had a friend who was born in Macau and raised there for a few years and it's funny, cause his experience is much different from those of the macanese. He's Portuguese. And I didn't know about RTP! At all! It's cool that you watch it and understand it :o It's funny, cause it's the TV channel less watched by the portuguese nowadays. I'd love to visit Macau one day :) I've been told the portuguese part of the city is very small, but I still want to see it!

@@6maria94 Portuguese influence is all over the city! Every street in Macau has a Portuguese name like "Rua de 25 Abril" or "Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro", and the street signs are all blue and white Portuguese tiles with Portuguese and Chinese letters. There is lots of colonial architecture, with villas converted into museums, the Leal Senado (Macau's assembly until 1999, now the Instituto para os Assuntos Municipais) building, the jewel of the city (Senado Square, with Colourful architecture, Calçadas and many churches). Locals often call Macau "Lisbon but with skyscrapers", as our city has this gigantic golden lotus building, the Casino Lisboa. Villa da Taipa is where a lot of the European immigrants settled, and it has a lake wetland plantation, 5 Teal-coloured houses that are restored as a museum, and over 20 Portuguese restaurants! It is also covered in Calçadas and vibrantly colourful buildings. It is also accessible from the Metro Ligeiro de Macau. If you want Chinese influence, head to Barra, where there is the A-Ma Temple, a Chinese temple where the Portuguese first landed. There's also the Mandarin's mansion, where a wealthy Chinese family lived, restored as a museum. If you want casinos and nightlife, there are two places. You can head to Lisboa where there are 4 mega-casinos with shopping malls, interactive lake and priceless art or you can head to Cotai, where there are huge Las-Vegas style resorts with things like a beach resort, shopping galore, ancient Chinese art, and recreated Venice and Paris. There's also the iconic Ruins of St Paul's, which is a European-style Cathedral facade with chinese motifs (like dragons). There is also a museum with relics attached to it. Just next to it is another Chinese temple! All over the city you will also find Pasteis de Nata, they are literally EVERYWHERE. If you want, you can go visit the Lotus Square, a square commemorating Macau's independence from Portugal in 1999. There are also two Portuguese forts on hills to explore and lots of other historical sites all over, like St Francisco's Barracks (Barracks that held the Portuguese garrison in the city until 1976, although a task force was deployed in the city from 1996-1999 to deal with a crime wave caused by the uncertainty of the end of Portuguese rule) and the Maritime Museum, which also has calçadas and a beautiful view of the Praia Grande.

Also the Casa Garden, beautiful beautiful beautiful 18th Century Chinese gardens with an art gallery and a Pink-and White restored Portuguese colonial villa!

Thank you! She was super cute. :)

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@@lil_weasel219 A bit less Asian to be exact.

She looks great!

ou qualquer vó de um país (to escrevendo tanto em ingles que me esqueci a diferença entre pais e país kkkk) que foi colonizado pelos portugueses principalmente aqui no Brasil

Luiz Guilherme si bonjour

In a Chinese point of view, she’s dressed like a Chinese Grandma tooo lol like both

In a Chinese point of view, she’s dressed like a Chinese Grandma tooo lol like both

Fogo ainda bem que não sou a única que reparei. Ela parece mesmo a minha avó e as amigas velhotas dela.

What language did you speak there?

I am a Macanese! I was born there and I live there!

@@sxhi3852 can you speak patua?

Yeollie chanyeol Kinda cuz my grandma teach me

They were never meant to be. The Portuguese should have never been there in the first place

Ahahahaha ccp will destroy everything in 20 years ahaha

@Zhang Zhuisui no They left in 1998 if im right Idk but around that time.

Zhang Zhuisui Forced out by your government, who is now slowly trying to assimilate and demographically replace the people of Macau.

yep, found the colonial sympathist

Zhang Zhuisui you’re right, China loves diversity and would never try to assimilate cultures that find themselves within it’s borders. Like Tibet etc.

HAHAHA are you serious??? Wow the colonized mindset is so strong with you. For you I can understand because before Europeans the Cape Verde island didn't have a native population. BUT I'm Taiwanese-American and all I have to saw is fuck colonialism. All of us peoples who have been victimized by colonization should been seeking our true traditions! Not this bullshit Europeans pushed on us.

Nhos é di Cabo Verde? Nhos ta cumé catchupa.😂

​@@franciscolima1762 lol

I was also incredibly surprised to see creole in Singapore with so much portuguese influence.

@rsaaol Yeah we say sabun in Indonesia. I think that's from Portuguese. What rice cake is it?

Portuguese were the first Europeans in much of Asia and Africa. The whole Eastern Hemisphere, was damn near under Portugal. Many lifestyles, naval travel routes, war patterns and architecture of other countries are due to Portuguese

oi casada < oi nonya😎

In indonesia it is Nyonya lel

She died in March 2021 unfortunately.

@@kaile3108 Sorry to hear that

It's tough to pass a language down when the kid rarely hears it in the outside world. The only thing I know of that works is to have the bapy-toddler-kid grow up spending a lot of time around the old folk who speak to each other. Also, the kid needs to be read to in that language. If the baby is out of the womb, the baby is old enough to be read to.

It's probably cos they all trace their roots to latin

Oh yeah, I saw a video about Chavacano, it was a weird experience, because it didn't sound like the mix I usually hear in filipinos, (which is still, somewhat understandable to me, as an argentinian who speaks English fluently) but rather like somewhat I could totally hear in Latin America. It sounded closer to the Castillian Spanish we use in Latin America rather than the Spanish you hear in Madrid, for example. Crazy to think how much water separates us and still felt like they weren't that far away.

Well said

Don’t forget Haitian Creole

@@Kirayni that may be because the Philippines used to be administered from the colony that later became Mexico

@@Kirayni There are different kinds of Chavacano, however Zamboangan Chavacano is probably what you have heard, which leans more towards spanish than other forms of Chavacano.

Yeees, I noticed. Its the sama english we brazilians speak with our accent.

Equilibrium Elementar Brasileiro nao gosta da historia com portugal , Brasileiro não gosto de falar portugues e depois quando realmente conhecem alguma coisa da verdadeira história de Portugal por esse mundo , fazem uma comparações hilariantes ! Brasil lindo país mas com um povo tão alienado 😊

@@lobinhali1233 ô generalização besta, comentário idiota...

@@lobinhali1233 vaza daqui anta!!!

O sotaque da senhora vem de uma vida inteira a falar português. Se ouvirem os portugueses a falar inglês, é exatamente assim. Não esqueçam que Hong Kong, ex colónia britânica, fica ao lado.

người việt nam toàn là họ hàng với người sắc tộc chất độc màu da cam cả thế giới đều biết đến họ có chính quyền bỏ nước ra đi vì ấm no hạnh phúc cho dân tộc bọn Nhật bản cũng vậy chơi mưu kế một chút não là hơn hai triệu người việt nam chết đói....

Infelizmente já está morrendo.

@@thecarioka78 na tua cabeça triste!

@Rochimin "uma vida boa na China"????? Macau têm uma cultura diferente da China Continental. O patuá e o português vão continuar em Macau porque fazem parte da cultura macaense.

@@joaojosesilva693 Sei que o vosso comentário é antigo, mas é fato que o Patuá está a desaparecer naquela cidade. Não é achismo, são estatísticas. A China continental nada fará neste sentido, infelizmente.

hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested?

Hi I am

@@_Diaryofwealth in my channel is the link to join the group, go to the 'About' window

@@boobalooux hello can you explain better please

@@boobalooux I went there but it doesn't lead me to any group rather back on here

In a lot of Asian languages they use reduplication to signify plurals.

@@drakl0r "Pau" can means a sexual thing.

@@drakl0r in portuguese it literally sounds like "My dick hot hot"

@@v.v.9.9. ahh I see 🤣

Pedro Petracco maybe its intentional

Unfortunately, it will.

Before China those places were just colonies. They should be thankful for people coming in.

History is live and constantly evolving. As long as it is peaceful and people try to preserve certain cultures, it is fine and inevitable.

It will, theres no stopping it.

Before colonization, these places were Chinese. Nothing is being lost here, it's just returning to the natural state.

you have a short name for a Pt. you'd normally have all those ribeiro de pires da cunha.

@@PHlophe LOL, I doubt that's even possible to put here all my names. I think is something very common in Iberia? Not sure, at least in PT it is.

@Ploke Newo78 AHAHAHAH, alright alright!

My great dressed like this. The traditional New Orleans ladies still do.

quando li o comentário pensei que você era brasileiro pelo nome kkkkkkkkk

@@snoglia1098 bruh... hk's official spoken languages are english, mandarin and cantonese and almost all hkers use cantonese, a large population in guangdong also speaks it. lots of cultures and even civilizations were lost in the past, so new ones can come, there's nothing bad about losing it, as long as people get to know about it and appreciate it while it exists

Don't wait for the government to do anything. Parents should teach their kids the language.

Laughs in chinese government

@@enyasong4392 How is there nothing bad about losing it? Diversity is good! Having every single person in the world speak the same language with the same culture would be boring.

@@OsirusHandle now you are pushing it to an extreme. but imagine someone in rural area in china, he's got his own language from his culture, but if he wants to go to school he needs to know mandarin chinese, and if he actually wants to have a decent job he needs to learn english as well. it's just too much for the people to handle. animals who no longer fits the environment will go extinct and its natural and normal, so are culture and languages. if we were to keep every single culture and language, it's just going to slow down the process of modernization and put a lot of stress on those who need to handle multiple languages, we shouldnt force them into extinction but when it's actually decaying just let it be

talvez porque o brasil tbm foi colonizado por portugal lol

@@stoned8034 o que eu quis dizer é que apesar de serem países tão diferentes, de continentes com culturas tão diferentes, o resultado final foi parecido Mas entendi o que você quis dizer kkk

that's interesting for you to say because I thought he sounded like a Cantonese speaking English I guess we all hear what we are familiar with in his accent.

Exactly my thoughts, but not only his. With lesser intensity, the accent of the two ladies sounded strangely familiar to my ears. I could totally mistake Sonia as brazilian because of this.

Envio de Aveiro, Portugal, um abraço com votos de Feliz Natal! Somos uma só nação e muitos países e regiões! Um grande abraço de um português nascido em Angola, que já viveu em Timor-Leste, visitou Macau e adora o Brasil e todos os países e regiões de língua portuguesa e de influência portuguesa. Temos irmãos na Malásia, em Jacarta na Indonésia, nas Flores, em Ormuz, por todo o lado!

Eu também gosto muito, especialmente como os portugueses se misturavam com a cultura local e como foram importantes na época das navegações. Se olhar outros países colonizadores, Portugal foi muito melhor que os outros. Um abraço.

@Arthur __ que dices que pizarro o cortes, que los españoles no escondan su historia como los portugueses es otra cosa, a nosotros no nos avergüenza nuestro pasado como a ustedes, ademas fueron los portugueses los que iniciaron la trata de esclavos africanos y los que mas esclavizaron y acabaron con los nativos del brasil, solo el amazonas se salvo

Brasil é o filho mais velho de Portugal...

@@kyomademon453 foda-se hispânico vai cuidar do teu país

I love how easy it is to see you're from Macau because your username is "Fong Denise"

Sim, morreu

oi, eu e um amigo meu estamos tentando manter essa linga(o patua) viva, nos temos um grupo no Telegram, vc tá interessad@?

@@boobalooux achei interessante!

Learn galego, o galego es a madre do portugues

ManOhMan não é verdade. São línguas irmãs não é mãe de nada.

O português deriva em parte do galego, com influências castelhano-leonesas e que acabaram por ser absorvidas pelos dialetos autóctones de Portucale com raízes no latim e absorvendo influências árabes sobretudo no sul.

hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested ??

Fuck your language. You forced millions of people in Africa, South America, and Asia to speak the language. Macau's native language is Cantonese and other Southern Chinse dialects. Fuck colonialism.

Its weird and fascinating for me, someone who also like Macau once was, lives also on a portuguese territory (the autonomous region of Azores) that when i was born, someone born in Macau, also had my nationality and we kinda were under the same flag (after the end of the portuguese fascist/conservative regime and reforms, people born in Macau, had portuguese nationality, until 1999). Hope you guys do well in the future under China. Greetings for the Macanese people.

Thank you, finally someone set this right.

Yes in Canada I see an older Portuguese lady walking around my neighbourhood, very distinctive style , with traditional Portuguese prints

Thank you :))

hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested ?

In Portuguese, flower is "flor". In some parts of Brazil, especially in the North and Northeast of the country, it is common that people pronounce it as "fulô".

hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested?

hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested ??

Thank you so much :)

hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested ?

@@boobalooux no but thanks.

thats rlly cool! Im just han chinese 👀👄👀

Maybe you could spend some time in Brazil.

hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested?

hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested ?

hey, me and a friend of mine are trying to revive this language through a group we made on Telegram, are you interested ?

It’s not your European roots, for God’s sake. It’s your colonialism. I just cannot believe that while many European people are rethinking what the colonialism had done to Africa, you still see Macau as something that Portugal lost.😱 Just look at the world map one more time, and then ask yourself: were Macau’s “Portuguese roots” naturally caused by geography or twisted by colonialism? If there used to be roots, it was your Portuguese who cut off Chinese roots in Macau.

@@feliciaff1009 What are you even talking about? No one's saying Macau is lost territory. The empire is over. It's undeniable thought that if you have Portuguese ancestry you share your genetics with these people and that's what I refer to by "European roots". Colonialism was a phenomenon and with all its downsides is already gone so there's no case in lamenting myself over something that already happened. I know the history of my country and its atrocities as well as its achievements. This entire anti colonialist movement is a mere strategy to manipulate and guilt trip people into thinking they're bad because of something they had nothing to do with. Do us all a favor and take your speech somewhere else.