classification: "Pidgin or Creole; Portuguese based",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: "derived from Kristang, the Portuguese creole of Malacca",
private_comment: null,
source_id: null,
speakers: [
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id:8978,
code_id:4744,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
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second_language_speakers: null,
semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "8,500",
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: "Data for the number of native speakers comes from Voegelin and Voegelin (1977). Data for the ethnic population was gathered in 1985.",
private_comment: null,
source_id:1511,
preferred: 0,
},
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id:8979,
code_id:4744,
speaker_number: "10-99",
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children: null,
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older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1521,
preferred: 0,
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id:8980,
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speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "4,000",
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semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: null,
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:1881,
preferred: 0,
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id:10554,
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speaker_number: "10-99",
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semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: "<50",
elders: null,
ethnic_population: ">10,000",
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: null,
private_comment: null,
source_id:7703,
preferred: 0,
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id:28974,
code_id:4744,
speaker_number: "10-99",
speaker_number_text: "~ 50",
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semi_speakers: null,
children: null,
young_adults: null,
older_adults: null,
elders: null,
ethnic_population: "60,000 (10,000 in Macao, China; 50,000 elsewhere)",
date_of_info: null,
public_comment: "around fifty fluent speakers remains in Macao, mostly females againg over 50; also some semispeakers and passive learners",