2019/03/14 by Stefanie Pillai, Alan N. Baxter, Wen-Yi Soh · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Multilingual Education and Policy #Portuguese #Creole language #Geography #History #Variety (cybernetics) #Ethnology #Linguistics #Ancient history #Genealogy #Computer science #Philosophy #Artificial intelligence
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0025100319000033
openalex publication_date 2019/03/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Malacca Portuguese Creole (MPC) (ISO 639-3; code: mcm), popularly known as Malacca Portuguese or locally as (Papiá) Cristang, belongs to the group of Portuguese-lexified creoles of (South)east Asia, which includes the extinct varieties of Batavia/Tugu (Maurer 2013) and Bidau, East Timor (Baxter 1990), and the moribund variety of Macau (Baxter 2009). MPC has its origins in the Portuguese presence in Malacca, and like the other creoles in this subset, it is genetically related to the Portuguese Creoles of South Asia (Holm 1988, Cardoso, Baxter & Nunes 2012).