Languages of Macau

Western Romance language

language group of the Sinitic languages

Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly romanized as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. Although Cantonese specifically refers to the prestige variety in linguistics, the term is often used more broadly to describe the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese, including varieties such as Taishanese, which have limited mutual intelligibility with Cantonese.

Portuguese-based creole spoken originally in Macau

form of Portuguese language used in Macau

deaf sign language of Hong Kong and Macau