Cristão

Crist?o, Cristan or Papi? Kristang, Portugu?s de Malaca (Malacca Portuguese), or simply papia is a Creole language based in Portuguese spoken in a Malay grammatical structure in Malacca, Malaysia.

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As a large part of Portuguese are practicing Catholics, Papia Crist?o - the name of the language and culture - means both "Roman Catholic" (papia kristang can be alluded to mean "Papist Christian") as well as "to talk christian". Other synonyms for the Portuguese community are "Serani" (short for Malay "nasrani") - meaning followers of Jesus the Nazarene; and "Gragok" (slang term for Malau "Geragau" or shrimp) - as the Malaccan Portuguese were traditionally fishermen who fished shrimp. The community is known, by themselves, as Gente Kristang (from broken Portuguese: Gente Crist?o, Port. Gente Crist?, Eng. Christian People).

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Creole language: A Creole is a language descended from a pidgin that has become the native language of a group of people. The majority of creole languages are based on English, Portuguese, French, Spanish and other languages (their superstrate language), with local or immigrant languages as substrate languages....

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