Manuel Teixeira (linguist)

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Manuel Teixeira (April 15, 1912 - September 15, 2003) was a diocesan priest of the Diocese of Macao, a historian and the leading expert in the Kristang language. He authored A Grammar of Kristang , published in the 1950s. He lived most of his life in Macau, where he arrived in 1924 to begin studies for the priesthood, returning to Portugal in 2001.

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