What is it about?
Kristang or Malacca Portuguese Creole is and Asian variety of a Portuguese Creole and is considered an endangered language. This paper looks at how family members at the Portuguese Settlement in Malacca feel about the language, and what they are doing to speak it and teach it to younger generations.
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Why is it important?
This paper shows how important it is for families to keep using Kristang or Malacca Portuguese Creole to keep it from dying out.
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This page is a summary of: Family language policy and heritage language maintenance of Malacca Portuguese Creole, Language & Communication, July 2014, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2013.12.003.
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