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Francisco Adolfo Coelho

Francisco Adolfo Coelho (Coimbra, 15 January 1847 — Carcavelos, 9 February 1919) was a Portuguese self-taught philologist and pedagogist. He is known for his monograph of Portuguese dialects spoken outside of Portugal, being the first person to have recorded the use of Macanese Patuá (a critically endangered creole language spoken in Macau), as well as his compilation of Portuguese folklore, ''Tales of Old Lusitania''. Provided by Wikipedia