Heritage Speak
Aug 07, 2019
2 minutes
WORDS: HASHIRIN NURIN HASHIMI
Kristang, the creole language of his Portuguese-Eurasian heritage, in 2015 when he was working on a story about endangered languages in the region for the linguistics magazine he ran with friends. “I was fortunate that the Kristang-speaking community in Singapore has remained relatively tight-knit over the years, and I was able to find 14 speakers of the language
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