Kristang

creole language spoken by the Kristang people
Language language Q2669169
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Kristang

Summary

Kristang is a language[1]. Kristang ranks in the top 3% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (436 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Kristang is in the country of Malaysia[3].
  • Kristang is in the country of Singapore[4].
  • Kristang's instance of is recorded as language[5].
  • Kristang's instance of is recorded as creole[6].
  • Kristang's instance of is recorded as natural language[7].
  • Kristang's instance of is recorded as modern language[8].
  • Kristang is a type of Malacca–Batavia Portuguese Creole[9].
  • Kristang is a type of Portuguese-based creole languages[10].
  • Kristang is a type of creole[11].
  • Kristang's writing system is recorded as Latin script[12].
  • Kristang's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Kristang language[13].
  • Kristang's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+2200'}[14].
  • Kristang's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+800'}[15].
  • Kristang's described by source is recorded as A grammar of Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese)[16].
  • Kristang's described by source is recorded as A dictionary of Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese) with an English-Kristang finderlist[17].
  • Kristang's described by source is recorded as Malacca Creole Portuguese in the 19th century[18].
  • Kristang's described by source is recorded as Family language policy and heritage language maintenance of Malacca Portuguese Creole[19].
  • Kristang's described by source is recorded as Illustrations of the IPA: Malacca Portuguese Creole[20].
  • Kristang's UNESCO language status is recorded as 4 severely endangered[21].
  • Kristang's indigenous to is recorded as Malacca[22].
  • Kristang's indigenous to is recorded as Kuala Lumpur[23].
  • Kristang's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/MCM[24].
  • Kristang's exact match is recorded as https://apics-online.info/contributions/42[25].
  • Kristang's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 6b Threatened[26].
  • Kristang's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as Q131938994[27].

Why It Matters

Kristang ranks in the top 3% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (436 views/month).[2] Kristang has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Kristang is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . apics-online.info. apics-online.info. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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