Abstract:

This paper selects 386 indigenous Macaonese vocabularies from Macau's Chinese documents under the Qing Dynasty in order to analyze the lexical characteristics of Macau's Chinese and to describe Macau's linguistic milieu during that period. The paper aims to make a study of features of Macau society in the Qing Dynasty through Macau's indigenous Cantonese. This is a socio-linguistic paper that employs morpheme analysis and imported lexicon analysis.

Key words: Chinese document in the Qing Dynasty, morpheme, lexicon table, data