STORY OF THE DAY • Aug 06, 2020 • 8 min read
Language Saving the Malay Peninsula’s centuries-old Portuguese creole
By
Lee Ying Shan
• Aug 06, 2020
On the Malay Peninsula, a small community of Portuguese creole speakers survives almost four centuries since the southern Europeans were expelled from the region. On the brink of extinction, there are people working to preserve this rare language and culture