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Macanese or Macau Creole (known as Patuá to its speakers) is a creole language derived mainly from Malay Sinhalese Cantonese and Portuguese which was originally spoken by the Macanese community of the Portuguese colony of Macau. It is now spoken by a few families in Macau and in the Macanese diaspora.On February 20 2009 the new edition of UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger classified Patua as a critically endangered language.