澳门语言现状与语言规划

The present situation and the future of languages in Macao

澳门在长期的历史发展过程中，逐渐由一个小渔村变成一个著名的国际贸易商埠和东西方文化的交汇点，形成一个多元语言的社会。本文从社会语言学的角度描述澳门语言的现状，在此基础上，对澳门语言发展趋势作初步预测。本文重点讨论澳门语言规划和规范化问题，对如何处理中文、葡文和英文三者之间的关系作了较为详尽的论述。笔者认为，双语政策应是澳门语言规划中的基本政策，任何形式的单语政策都是违背时代潮流的。澳门现存的中文、葡文和英文这三种语言应各司其职，协调发展，共同为澳门的经济、文化繁荣服务。

This paper tries to generalize the present language situation in Macao, to predicttentatively it's developing tendency and to provide some suggestions to the language planningand language standardization in the near future. The basic viewpoint of this paper is: thetrend of language use in the world today is from monolingual to bilingual and tomultilingual; to follow this trend, the characteristic of multilingualism in Macao should beretained. This paper predicts that Chinese and Portuguese will exist for a long time as officiallanguages in Macao; and the market value of English will be raised to a higher level. Thispaper advocates that to keep the characteristics of both Chinese and Portuguese cultures inMacao, further steps of carrying out a bilingual policy should be taken. To achieve thisobjective, the Chinese and Portuguese linguists need to work as a very good team.