The Study Of Cantonese Pronunciation Of Macaense In Macau

The Macaense, inhabitants born in Macau and with the mix-blood of Chinese and Portuguese, have a living history for several hundred years in Macau. As the influences of their families, the development and the change of Macau society and the Sino-Portuguese bilingualism, most of the Macaense are unaware of refraining from the influence of Portuguese. They regard Cantonese as their mother tongue, but the Cantonese of Macaense is affected by the Portuguese language when they are in childhood. In their Cantonese, there are many features different from the local Chinese, especially in the profile of pronunciation. It can be seen obviously.In the recent 20 years, as the development of Macau society has changed a lot, the characteristics of their Cantonese pronunciation is rapidly tending to vanish. The formation of Cantonese pronunciation features is after all a mark of Macau language left in the Macau history within these hundred years. At the moment of this historical 'mark' perishing, to record, to study this special language phenomenon , to analyze the formative reasons and developing trends and to save a special language file in the Macau language society are all the aims of this article.