Francisco Adolfo Coelho was a Portuguese self-taught philologist and pedagogist.

[1][2] 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.

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