Portuguese (endonym: português or língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the Iberian Peninsula...
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The languages of Portugal are Portuguese, Mirandese, Portuguese Sign Language, Leonese and Caló, with the inclusion of other linguistic entities like...
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Portuguese creoles (Portuguese: crioulo) are creole languages which have Portuguese as their substantial lexifier. The most widely-spoken creoles influenced...
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Galician–Portuguese, Old Galician or Old Portuguese, Medieval Galician or Medieval Portuguese when referring to the history of each modern language, was a...
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second-most Portuguese speakers in the world, only behind the Americas. Like French and English, Portuguese has become a post-colonial language in Africa...
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Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro; [poʁtuˈɡejz bɾaziˈlejɾu]) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil and...
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Portuguese (Portuguese: português europeu, pronounced [puɾtuˈɣez ewɾuˈpew]), also known as Portuguese of Portugal (Portuguese: português de Portugal)...
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level however, Portuguese is spoken by the majority. Angola does not have an official language at the federal level however, Portuguese is spoken by the...
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The Portuguese language developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin spoken by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd century BC. Old...
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the Portuguese language. In 1996, together with Portugal and Brazil, the Portuguese-speaking African countries established the Community of Portuguese Language...
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essential religious language, there were 1,500 students learning Portuguese in Goa in 2015; totaling a number of 10,000 – 12,000 Portuguese speakers in the...
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The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; abbr. : CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Community...
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Cape Verdeans, Portuguese, and Timorese found throughout the world. Portuguese is spoken as a first language in Portugal (the language's namesake) by nearly...
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Equatorial Guinea written in Portuguese Literature of Guinea-Bissau written in Portuguese Literature of Macao written in Portuguese Literature of São Tomé and...
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International Portuguese Language Institute (Portuguese: Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa, IILP) is the Community of Portuguese Language Countries's...
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Galician: [kaˈlɔ]; Portuguese: [kɐˈlɔ]) is a language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani ethnic groups. It is a mixed language (referred to as a...
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A Portuguese name, or Lusophone name – a personal name in the Portuguese language – is typically composed of one or two personal names, the mother's family...
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Portugal Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods Portuguese language, a Romance language Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language Portuguese man...
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language (or patuá), a distinct Portuguese creole that developed in Macau during the Portuguese rule. Macau had its first contact with the Portuguese...
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very distinct from the sign language used in Sweden. Deafness in Portugal Portuguese manual alphabet Portuguese Sign Language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
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varieties, Galician and Portuguese, began to diverge, as Portuguese became the official language of the independent Kingdom of Portugal and its chancellery...
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majority of Portugal's former colonial holdings in the Americas. Aside from Portuguese, the country also has numerous minority languages, including indigenous...
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Judaeo-Portuguese, Jewish-Portuguese or Judaeo-Lusitanic, is an extinct Jewish language or a dialect of Galician-Portuguese written in the Hebrew alphabet...
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America 1,000,000 people speak Portuguese as their home language, mainly immigrants from Brazil, Portugal, and other Portuguese-speaking countries and their...
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dialects of Portuguese, known together as Brazilian Portuguese, reveals the diversity of this language. The country also received settlers from Portugal and white...
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The Portuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) is a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country...
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The Portuguese Empire (Portuguese: Império Português, European Portuguese: [ĩˈpɛ.ɾju puɾ.tuˈɣeʃ]), also known as the Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português)...
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European Portuguese words in their grammars or lexicons: Ceylon Portuguese creole (Sri Lanka) Damaon and Dio Portuguese creole Kristi language (Chaul Portuguese...
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Portuguese and Spanish, although closely related Romance languages, differ in many aspects of their phonology, grammar, and lexicon. Both belong to a subset...
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Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring the westernmost point in continental...
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