How creole language of Macau, patuá, nearly died before being revived

Cultural identity markers once disregarded – such as critically endangered languages – sometimes unexpectedly reassert themselves, and re-emerge in the most unlikely corners. A resurgent interest in various forms of Portuguese/Macanese cultural identity among a certain subsection of Hong Kong people, and how that plays out through renewed appreciation of patuá, their creolised “ancestral language”, is an illustrative example.Sometimes described as “Cantonese flesh on Portuguese bones”, this…

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