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[MUSIC]

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

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

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Aida is from Macau, a Chinese city 
that was formerly

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colonized by Portugal for 400 years.

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She and her daughter Sonia
are among the few people

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who still speak Patuà,
a critically endangered language

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that is unique to Macau.

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[MUSIC]

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

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Patuà, Cantonese,
Portuguese and English.

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You can see how Patuà mixes
the languages

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of places along the Portuguese
trade route

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in the 16th century.

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[MUSIC]

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When I was in school,
in our days

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they didn't like us to speak
Patuà,

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