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    Portuguese-speaking African countries (Portuguese: Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa; PALOP), also known as Lusophone Africa, consist of six African countries...
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  • A lingua franca (/ˌlɪŋɡwə ˈfræŋkə/; lit. 'Frankish tongue'; for plurals see § Usage notes), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language...
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    refúgio da língua geral no Brasil". Estudos Avançados (in Portuguese). 26 (76): 245–254. doi:10.1590/S0103-40142012000300024. ISSN 0103-4014. "Língua-geral...
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  • da UFRJ sobre a cooficialização de línguas no Brasil Município de Itarana participa de ações do Inventário da Língua Pomerana, Prefeitura Municipal de...
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    decreolization of the língua brasílica and the related língua geral paulista, then spoken in almost all of what is now São Paulo, a former lingua franca in most...
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  • Thumbnail for Houaiss Dictionary of the Portuguese Language
    The Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa (Houaiss Dictionary of the Portuguese Language) is a major reference dictionary for the Portuguese language...
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  • Tupi language (redirect from Língua Boa)
    antigo in Portuguese). It has previously been known, in Portuguese, as língua brasílica "Brazilian language". The following is a summary of the main characteristics...
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  • Agelena lingua is a species of spider in the family Agelenidae, which contains at least 1,350 species of funnel-web spiders as of August 2021[update]....
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    The Mediterranean Lingua Franca, or Sabir, was a contact language, or languages, that were used as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean Basin from the...
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    A lingua ignota (Latin for "unknown language") was described by the 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen, who apparently used it for mystical purposes...
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  • South African government aimed to establish Afrikaans as the primary lingua franca in South Africa and South African-controlled South-West Africa (now...
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    Latin (redirect from Lingua latina)
    Latin (lingua Latina, Latin: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum, Latin: [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European...
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    of Portuguese Language Countries (Portuguese: Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa; abbr. : CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Community (Portuguese:...
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    home language, that of only 8.7% of South Africans in 2022; nevertheless, it has become the de facto lingua franca of the nation. Estimates based on the...
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  • Cape Verdian Sign Language (Língua Gestual Caboverdiana) is the sign language used by the deaf community in Cape Verde, numbering around 1500–4000. It...
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     23–25. ISBN 9780621413885. "South Africa". Ethnologue. Retrieved 4 September 2022. "A Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa, com Jorge Couto" [The...
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    Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea). The Chadic branch is distributed in Central and West Africa. Hausa, its most widely spoken language, serves as a lingua franca...
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  • Lingua: An International Review of General Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering general linguistics that was established in 1949. It...
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    Portuguese as an official language in Africa are referred to by the acronym PALOP (Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa) and include the following:...
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    Observatório da Língua (2016-04-07). "Angola: português é falado por 71, 15% de angolanos (censo de 2014)". Observatório da Língua Portuguesa (in European...
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    illegal logging. Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, verbete criol: Língua derivada do português e de várias línguas africanas, falada pela maior parte...
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  • English as a lingua franca (ELF) is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" and can be understood as "any...
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  • Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 (Portuguese: Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa de 1990) is an international treaty whose purpose is to create...
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    Mediterranean islands west of Crete and in western North Africa.[citation needed] Serapias lingua flowers in spring to early summer with 2.5 cm flowers and...
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  • Portuguese Sign language (Portuguese: Língua gestual portuguesa) is a sign language used mainly by deaf people in Portugal. It is recognized in the present...
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    The Central African Republic's two official languages are French and Sango (also spelled Sangho), a creole developed as an inter-ethnic lingua franca based...
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    Retrieved 2013-12-06. A língua portuguesa: Guiné-Bissau João Fernando Cá: Aspectos linguísticos do Guineense: Reflexões acerca de uma língua, pages 95/96, 2021...
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    Italian (italiano, Italian: [itaˈljaːno] , or lingua italiana, Italian: [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family...
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  • refer to: PALOP, the group of Portuguese-speaking African countries (Portuguese: Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa) Andrés Palop, a Spanish footballer...
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  • Angolan Portuguese (category Portuguese language in Africa)
    Portuguese O Português na África — Angola (in Portuguese). www.linguaportuguesa.ufrn.br Queta, Clemêncio. Alguns aspectos da língua portuguesa em Angola (in...
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