Manuel Teixeira (April 15, 1912 - September 15, 2003) was a diocesan priest of the Diocese of Macao, an historian, and the leading expert in the

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 ...

. He is the author of '' A Grammar of Kristang'' published in the 1950s. He lived most of his life in

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

, having arrived there in 1924 to begin studies for the priesthood, returning to Portugal in 2001.

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