[MUSIC]

Meet Aida de Jesus. She's 103 years old.

I don't like to feel so old.
I like to feel only 80.

Aida is from Macau, a Chinese city 
that was formerly

colonized by Portugal for 400 years.

She and her daughter Sonia
are among the few people

who still speak Patuà,
a critically endangered language

that is unique to Macau.

[MUSIC]

Here's a local music video
with subtitles in four languages:

Patuà, Cantonese,
Portuguese and English.

You can see how Patuà mixes
the languages

of places along the Portuguese
trade route

in the 16th century.

[MUSIC]

When I was in school,
in our days

they didn't like us to speak
Patuà,

because they used to say
that it is not real Portuguese.