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Eurasian Singaporeans
Eurasian Singaporeans are Singaporeans of mixed European and Asian descent. Their Asian ancestry trace from Colonial India to other colonies while their European ancestry trace back to western Europe primarily, although Eurasian settlers to Singapore in the 19th century came largely from other European colonies. These included British Malaya and British Sarawak, part of the former British Raj India, of the former Portuguese India and Chittagong (today in Bangladesh), the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina. When the European maritime powers colonised Asian countries, such as Colonial India, Ceylon, Malaya, Singapore, Indonesia and Indochina, from the 16th to 20th centuries, they brought into being a new group of commingled ethnicities known historically as Eurasians. Early Europeans were primarily male and often had children with local women. Initially, the offspring of such a union were brought up as an appendage of European culture, enjoying further advantages not ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristang Language
("speak Christian"), or just , is a creole language spoken by the Kristang, a community of people of mixed Portuguese and Malay ancestry, chiefly in Malacca, Malaysia. The language is also called or ("Christian"), ("Malacca Portuguese"), ("Mother Tongue") or simply ("speak"). Locals and most of the Kristang community in Malacca refer to the language as " Portugis", while in Singapore it is known as Kristang. In ''Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger'' (2010; formerly the ''Red Book of Endangered Languages'') published by UNESCO, Kristang is classified as a "severely endangered" language, with only about 2,000 speakers. Up to 2014, linguists concerned with Kristang have generally accepted a combined speaker population of about 1,000 individuals or less. The language has about 750 speakers in Malacca and another 100 in Singapore. A small number of speakers also live in other Portuguese Eurasian communities in Kuala Lumpur and Penang in Malaysia, and in diaspora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
