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The use of Kristang in the Portuguese settlement of Malacca
The writer's contact with members of the community over the last few years has prompted this investigation into the use of Kristang and the chances of its survival.
Mario Pinharanda Nunes
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Null subject pronouns in Papiá Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese)
This paper investigates variation in the subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Papiá Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese), a language without verb inflection. Previous accounts of Kristang (Baxter, 1988, 2012b; Hancock, 1969, 1973; Knowlton, 1964; R&
Alan Norman Baxter +1 more
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Language Maintenance or Language Shift in the Portuguese Settlement of Malacca in Malaysia
This paper discusses the status of Kristang, a creole among the Portuguese Eurasians of Malaysia. The study focuses on members of the Portuguese Eurasian community who live in the Portuguese Settlement of Malacca.
Maya Khemlani David, Noor Faridah
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The Transmission of Substrate Features
Theories of the formation of creole syntax have been proposed to explain whether substrates and superstrates influence the resultant creole structures, and if so, what the mechanisms are by which they influence them.
Robert Laub
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Jesuits Open Japan for Europe (1542‒1597) [PDF]
The middle of the 15th century in Europe was the beginning of geographical discovery, colonial conquest and slavery. In 1441 the Portuguese Antão Gonçalves seized slaves in Africa as a gift to Prince Henry the Navigator.
Mikhail Nosov
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The appearance of the Portuguese fleet in the Indian Ocean and the Straits of Malacca was the starting factor for triggering colonialism in Nusantara. The emergence of the fleet which then continued to the domination of the Portuguese on the one hand had
Muhammad Haykal
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The Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam was an Islamic kingdom that existed in the 16 th century. Meanwhile in the western region, the Islamic kingdom which was the last caliphate, namely the Ottoman Empire, was at the peak of its glory under the leadership of ...
Muhammad Iqbal +2 more
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Albuquerque at Malacca, 1511; Yermak in Siberia, 1582. The amphibious charge to global empires
The transformation of warfare in the Early Modern period, embodied in the concept of the military revolution, not only changed the face of combat and societies of belligerent nations, but the global military balance as well.
Vladimir Shirogorov
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Thinking in Islands; the Portuguese Perception of the Indonesian Archipelago and Particularly of Sunda in Early Texts and Charts [PDF]
This article discusses various early sources on the Indonesian archipelago. It starts with the status of knowledge before the first voyage of the Portuguese to the Moluccas from accounts of travellers to insular Southeast Asia in the Middle Ages and the ...
Langguth, S. (Svann)
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Portuguese Malacca as Seen by 16th Century Venetian Merchant [PDF]
The article deals with the perceptions of an important colonial city, the Portuguese Malacca, in the itinerary written by the Venetian merchant and traveler Cesare Federici (Cesare dei Federici, 1521–1601, traveled in Asia in 1563–1581). Federici’s Voyage to the East India and beyond India (1587) is a vast description of the states of the Middle East ...
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