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Languages for Macau/Macao

Asked by Robert B

Macau (Portuguese/international spelling) or Macao (alternative English spelling) has two official languages: Chinese and Portuguese. Over 90% of the population speak Chinese, the majority of which use Cantonese with Mandarin in second place. Only a small minority speaks Portuguese. There are in fact more people who speak English than those who speak Portuguese. For Launchpad I suggest setting the default language for Macau to traditional Chinese (should be zh-tw).

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Данило Шеган (danilo) said : 		#1

Hi Robert, thanks for providing details about Macau languages.

Launchpad doesn't base any defaults on the country. We do display some snippets which are based on the country (like languages spoken in that country), so I wonder what exactly do you want us to update?

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Robert B (robertb-macau) said : 		#2

In the dialog for setting my language preferences there appears a box on the right hand side with following text:

"Languages in Macao
No languages are currently registered as being spoken in Macao. If you have this information, please see if it has already been submitted in the Answers application, and if it hasn't, file a new question about it."

This prompted me to file this information. I thought someone on this site would have some use for it.

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Christian Reis (kiko) said : 		#3

Danilo, Robert's talking about CountryLanguage, I would imagine?

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Christian Reis (kiko) said : 		#4

Err SpokenIn.

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Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) said : 		#5

Thanks, I've marked Macao as one of the countries or regions that speak Traditional Chinese.

I believe we hadn't done this before because of the fuzzy line between the two roles of zh_TW: "Traditional Chinese" and "Chinese as spoken in Taiwan."

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