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1. 456 relations: Academia Brasileira de Letras, Accent (sociolinguistics), Acre (state), Afonso I of Portugal, Africa, African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, African Union, Afrikaans, Age of Discovery, Agreste, Al-Andalus, Alagoas, Alentejan Portuguese, Alentejo, Alexandre de Rhodes, Algarve, Allophone, Alveolar consonant, Amazônia Legal, Amazofonia, Amazon basin, Amazon rubber cycle, Amazonas (Brazilian state), American Community Survey, Americas, Amharic, Amnesty International, Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome, Andalusi Romance, Andorra, Angola, Angolan literature, Angolan Portuguese, Antônio Houaiss, Apical consonant, Approximant, Arabic, Arabic definite article, Areal feature, Argentina, Asia, Asturian language, Asturias, Asturleonese language, Atlantic Europe, Atlantic slave trade, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira, Aurélio Dictionary, Autonomous Regions of Portugal, ... Expand index (406 more) » « Shrink index

2. Community of Portuguese Language Countries
3. Fusional languages
4. Languages attested from the 9th century
5. Languages of Angola
6. Languages of Cape Verde
7. Languages of East Timor
8. Languages of Guinea-Bissau
9. Languages of Macau
10. Languages of Mozambique
11. Languages of Paraguay
12. Languages of Portugal
13. Languages of São Tomé and Príncipe
14. Languages of Uruguay
15. Lingua francas

Academia Brasileira de Letras

The Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL; English: Brazilian Academy of Letters) is a Brazilian literary non-profit society established at the end of the 19th century.

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Accent (sociolinguistics)

In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual.

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Acre (state)

Acre is a state located in the west of the North Region of Brazil and the Amazonia Legal.

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Afonso I of Portugal

Afonso IOr also Affonso (Archaic Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonso (Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonsus (Latin version), sometimes rendered in English as Alphonzo or Alphonse, depending on the Spanish or French influence.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, also known simply as the African Court, is an international court established by member states of the African Union (AU) to implement provisions of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (also known as the Banjul Charter).

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African Union

The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa.

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Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapping with the Age of Sail.

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Agreste

The agreste ("countryside") is a narrow zone of Brazil in the states of Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia between the coastal forest zona da mata and the semiarid sertão.

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Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Alagoas

Alagoas, officially State of Alagoas, is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region.

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Alentejan Portuguese

Alentejan Portuguese is a dialect of Portuguese spoken in the Portuguese region of Alentejo. Portuguese language and Alentejan Portuguese are languages of Portugal.

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Alentejo

Alentejo is a geographical, historical, and cultural region of south–central and southern Portugal.

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Alexandre de Rhodes

Alexandre de Rhodes, SJ (15 March 1593 – 5 November 1660), also Đắc Lộ was an Avignonese Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam.

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Algarve

The Algarve is the southernmost NUTS II region of continental Portugal.

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Allophone

In phonology, an allophone (from the Greek ἄλλος,, 'other' and φωνή,, 'voice, sound') is one of multiple possible spoken soundsor phonesused to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language.

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

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Amazônia Legal

Amazônia Legal, also known as Brazil's Legal Amazon (BLA), is the largest socio-geographic division in Brazil, containing all nine states in the Amazon basin.

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Amazofonia

Amazofonia or Nortista dialect is a dialect of Portuguese spoken by most people in Brazil's Amazônia Legal region.

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Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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Amazon rubber cycle

The Amazon rubber cycle or boom (Ciclo da borracha,; Fiebre del caucho) was an important part of the economic and social history of Brazil and Amazonian regions of neighboring countries, being related to the extraction and commercialization of rubber.

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Amazonas (Brazilian state)

Amazonas is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the north-western corner of the country.

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American Community Survey

The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual demographics survey program conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Amharic

Amharic (or; Amarəñña) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. Portuguese language and Amharic are Fusional languages.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Andalusi Romance

Andalusi Romance, also called Mozarabic or Ajami, refers to the varieties of Ibero-Romance that developed in Al-Andalus, the parts of the medieval Iberian Peninsula under Islamic control. Portuguese language and Andalusi Romance are languages of Portugal.

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Andorra

Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France to the north and Spain to the south.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.

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Angolan literature

Angolan literature has its origins in the mid-19th century.

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Angolan Portuguese

Portuguese is the official language of Angola. Portuguese language and Angolan Portuguese are languages of Angola.

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Antônio Houaiss

Antônio Houaiss (or; October 15, 1915 – March 7, 1999) was a Brazilian lexicographer, diplomat, writer and translator.

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Apical consonant

An apical consonant is a phone (speech sound) produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue (apex) in conjunction with upper articulators from lips to postalveolar, and possibly prepalatal.

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Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. Portuguese language and Arabic are Fusional languages, lingua francas and Subject–verb–object languages.

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Arabic definite article

(ٱلْـ, also romanized as el-, il-, and l- as pronounced in some varieties of Arabic), is the definite article in the Arabic language: a particle (ḥarf) whose function is to render the noun on which it is prefixed definite.

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Areal feature

In geolinguistics, areal features are elements shared by languages or dialects in a geographic area, particularly when such features are not descended from a proto-language, i.e. a common ancestor language.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Asturian language

Asturian (asturianu),Art.

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Asturias

Asturias (Asturies) officially the Principality of Asturias, (Principado de Asturias; Principáu d'Asturies; Galician–Asturian: Principao d'Asturias) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.

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Asturleonese language

Asturleonese (Astur-Leonese; Asturlleonés; Asturleonés; Asturo-leonês; Asturlhionés) is a Romance language or language family spoken in northwestern Spain and northeastern Portugal, namely in the historical regions and Spain's modern-day autonomous communities of Asturias, northwestern Castile and León, Cantabria and Extremadura, and in Riudenore and Tierra de Miranda in Portugal.

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Atlantic Europe

Atlantic Europe is a geographical term for the western portion of Europe which borders the Atlantic Ocean.

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Atlantic slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas.

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Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira

Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira (May 3, 1910 – February 28, 1989) was a Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator, and writer, best known for editing the Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, a major dictionary of the Portuguese language.

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Aurélio Dictionary

The Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa is a comprehensive dictionary of the Portuguese language, published in Brazil, first compiled by Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira.

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Autonomous Regions of Portugal

The two Autonomous Regions of Portugal from 1999 (Regiões Autónomas de Portugal) are the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores) and Madeira.

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Aveiro, Portugal

Aveiro is a city and a municipality in Portugal.

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Azores

The Azores (Açores), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (Região Autónoma dos Açores), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal (along with Madeira).

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Bahia

Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country.

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Baixa Limia – Serra do Xurés

Baixa Limia – Serra do Xurés is a natural park in Galicia, Spain.

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Bandar Abbas

Bandar Abbas (بندر عباس) is a city in the Central District of Bandar Abbas County, Hormozgan province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district.

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Bandeirantes

Bandeirantes (singular: bandeirante) were settlers in Portuguese Brazil who participated in exploratory voyages during the early modern period to expand the colony's borders and subjugate indigenous Brazilians.

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Barranquenho

Barranquenho (Barranquenhu) is a Romance linguistic variety spoken in the Portuguese town of Barrancos, near the Spanish border. Portuguese language and Barranquenho are languages of Portugal.

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Belém

Belém (Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará), often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country's north.

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Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.3 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, with a population of 6 million.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.

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Berlitz Corporation

Berlitz Corporation is a language education and leadership training company which is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Bermuda

Bermuda (historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Boca do Acre

Boca do Acre (Mouth of Acre) is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

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Braga

Braga (Bracara) is a city and a municipality, capital of the northwestern Portuguese district of Braga and of the historical and cultural Minho Province.

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Brasília

Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District, located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region.

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Brasiguayos

The term Brasiguaio (Portuguese) or brasiguayo (Spanish) is associated to individuals holding ties with Brazil and Paraguay.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Brazilian literature

Brazilian literature is the literature written in the Portuguese language by Brazilians or in Brazil, including works written prior to the country's independence in 1822.

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Brazilian Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil and the most influential form of Portuguese worldwide. Portuguese language and Brazilian Portuguese are languages of Brazil.

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Breton language

Breton (brezhoneg or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. Portuguese language and Breton language are languages attested from the 9th century.

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Buri tribe

The Buri were a Germanic tribe in the time of the Roman empire who lived in mountainous and forested lands north of the Danube, in an area near what is now the west of modern Slovakia.

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Caipira dialect

Caipira (Old Tupi: ka'apir or kaa-pira, which means "bush cutter") is a Portuguese dialect spoken in the rural areas of the State of São Paulo and adjacent parts of neighbouring Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás, Minas Gerais, and Paraná.

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Caló language

Caló is a language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani ethnic groups. Portuguese language and Caló language are languages of Brazil and languages of Portugal.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canja de galinha

Canja de galinha (literally "chicken congee"), or simply canja, is a popular chicken soup of Portuguese, Cape Verdean, and Brazilian cuisine.

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Cantabria

Cantabria (also) is an autonomous community and province in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city.

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Cantabrian language

Cantabrian (cántabru, in Cantabrian) is a vernacular Romance linguistic variety, most often classified as part of the Asturleonese linguistic group.

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Cape Verde

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.

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Cape Verdean Creole

Cape Verdean Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken on the islands of Cape Verde. Portuguese language and Cape Verdean Creole are languages of Cape Verde.

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Cape Verdean Portuguese

Cape Verdean Portuguese (Português cabo-verdiano) is the variety of Portuguese spoken in Cape Verde. Portuguese language and Cape Verdean Portuguese are languages of Cape Verde.

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Carioca

Carioca is a demonym used to refer to anything related to the City of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.

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Catalan language

Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language. Portuguese language and Catalan language are Subject–verb–object languages.

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Catalan phonology

The phonology of Catalan, a Romance language, has a certain degree of dialectal variation.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Côte d'Ivoire

Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast and officially known as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.

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Ceará

Ceará is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast.

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Cedillo

Cedillo is a town and municipality in Spain, located in the province of Cáceres, community of Extremadura.

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Celtic languages

The Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family, descended from Proto-Celtic.

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Celtici

The Celtici (in Portuguese, Spanish, and Galician languages, Célticos) were a Celtic tribe or group of tribes of the Iberian peninsula, inhabiting three definite areas: in what today are the regions of Alentejo and the Algarve in Portugal; in the Province of Badajoz and north of Province of Huelva in Spain, in the ancient Baeturia; and along the coastal areas of Galicia.

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Celts

The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.

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Central vowel

A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Central-West Region, Brazil

The Central-West or Center-West Region of Brazil (Região Centro-Oeste do Brasil) is composed of the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul; along with Distrito Federal (Federal District), where Brazil's national capital, Brasília, is situated.

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Centro-Sul

Centro-Sul (South-Central) is a geographic area that encompasses the Southeastern, Southern and Central-West regions of Brazil (see Brazil Regional Division), excluding the north of Minas Gerais, most of Mato Grosso, and parts of Tocantins.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. Portuguese language and Chinese language are languages of Macau, lingua francas and Subject–verb–object languages.

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Class discrimination

Class discrimination, also known as classism, is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class.

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Classical Latin

Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a literary standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire.

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Clitic

In morphology and syntax, a clitic (backformed from Greek ἐγκλιτικός "leaning" or "enclitic"Crystal, David. A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1980. Print.) is a morpheme that has syntactic characteristics of a word, but depends phonologically on another word or phrase.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Close-mid vowel

A close-mid vowel (also mid-close vowel, high-mid vowel, mid-high vowel or half-close vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Code-switching

In linguistics, code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation or situation.

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Coimbra

Coimbra (also,, or) is a city and a municipality in Portugal.

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Colonial Brazil

Colonial Brazil (Brasil Colonial) comprises the period from 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese, until 1815, when Brazil was elevated to a kingdom in union with Portugal.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Community of Portuguese Language Countries

The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa;: CPLP), also known as the Lusophone Community (Comunidade Lusófona), is an international organization and political association of Lusophone nations across five continents, where Portuguese is an official language.

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Constitution of South Africa

The Constitution of South Africa is the supreme law of the Republic of South Africa.

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County of Portugal

The County of Portugal (Galician-Portuguese: Comtato de Portugalle; in documents of the period Portugalia) refers to two successive medieval counties in the region around Guimarães and Porto, today corresponding to littoral northern Portugal, within which the identity of the Portuguese people formed.

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Creole language

A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period.

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Curitiba

Curitiba is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná in Southern Brazil.

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Cutlass

A cutlass is a short, broad sabre or slashing sword, with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge, and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard.

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Cynetes

The Cynetes or Conii were one of the pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, living in today's Algarve and Lower Alentejo regions of southern Portugal, and the southern part of Badajoz and the northwestern portions of Córdoba and Ciudad Real provinces in Spain before the 6th century BC (in what part of this become the southern part of the Roman province of Lusitania).

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Daman and Diu

Daman and Diu was a union territory in northwestern India.

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Decreolization

Decreolization is a postulated phenomenon whereby over time a creole language reconverges with the lexifier from which it originally derived.

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Deforestation

Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.

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Demographics of Equatorial Guinea

Demographic features of the population of Equatorial Guinea include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

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Denis of Portugal

Denis (9 October 1261 – 7 January 1325), called the Farmer King (Rei Lavrador) and the Poet King (Rei Poeta), was King of Portugal.

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Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.

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Diaspora

A diaspora is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin.

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Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum

The Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (known in Vietnamese as Tự điển Việt-Bồ-La) is a trilingual Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary written by the French Jesuit lexicographer Alexandre de Rhodes after 12 years in Vietnam.

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East Timor

East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-western half, and the minor islands of Atauro and Jaco. The western half of the island of Timor is administered by Indonesia.

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East Timorese Portuguese

East Timorese Portuguese (Português timorense in Portuguese), or Nusantaran Portuguese (Português nusantarano in Portuguese), is the variety of the Portuguese language spoken in Timor-Leste. Portuguese language and East Timorese Portuguese are languages of East Timor.

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ECOWAS

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS; also known as CEDEAO in French and Portuguese) is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries of West Africa.

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Elision

In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase.

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Eljas

Eljas (Ellas or As Ellas) is a municipality (''municipio'') located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

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Endonym and exonym

An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their homeland, or their language.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain. Portuguese language and English language are Fusional languages, lingua francas and Subject–verb–object languages.

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Eo (river)

The Eo is a river, long, in northwestern Spain.

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Epenthesis

In phonology, epenthesis (Greek) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the beginning syllable (prothesis) or in the ending syllable (paragoge) or in-between two syllabic sounds in a word.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants.

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Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea (Guinea Ecuatorial; Guinée équatoriale; Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (República de Guinea Ecuatorial, République de Guinée équatoriale, República da Guiné Equatorial), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa, with an area of.

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Ermesinde

Ermesinde is a civil parish in the municipality (concelho) of Valongo, in continental Portugal, northeast of Porto.

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Escola Portuguesa de Moçambique

Escola Portuguesa de Moçambique - Centro de Ensino e Língua Portuguesa (EPM-CELP) is a Portuguese international school in Maputo, Mozambique.

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Espírito Santo

Espírito Santo is a state in southeastern Brazil.

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Esposende

Esposende is a city and a municipality in Braga District in Portugal.

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Eswatini

Eswatini (eSwatini), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland and formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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European Portuguese

European Portuguese (português europeu), also known as Portuguese of Portugal (português de Portugal), Iberian Portuguese (português ibérico), and Peninsular Portuguese (português peninsular), refers to the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau.

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European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 22-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Extremadura

Extremadura (Estremaúra; Estremadura; Fala: Extremaúra) is a landlocked autonomous community of Spain.

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Extremaduran language

Extremaduran (estremeñu, extremeño) is a group of vernacular Romance dialects, related to the Asturleonese language, spoken in Extremadura and adjoining areas in the province of Salamanca.

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Fala language

Fala ("Speech", also called Xalimego) is a Western Romance language commonly classified in the Galician-Portuguese subgroup, with some traits from Leonese, spoken in Spain by about 10,500 people, of whom 5,500 live in a valley of the northwestern part of Extremadura near the border with Portugal.

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Fernão de Oliveira

Fernão de Oliveira (1507 – c.1581), sometimes named Fernando de Oliveira or Fernando Oliveira, was a Portuguese grammarian, Dominican friar, historian, cartographer, naval pilot and theorist on naval warfare and shipbuilding.

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Final-obstruent devoicing

Final-obstruent devoicing or terminal devoicing is a systematic phonological process occurring in languages such as Catalan, German, Dutch, Quebec French, Breton, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Turkish, and Wolof.

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Flores

Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia.

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Florianópolis

Florianópolis is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina, in the South region of Brazil.

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Florianopolitan dialect

Florianopolitan dialect, informally called manezês or manezinho, is a variety of Brazilian Portuguese heavily influenced by (and often considered an extension of) the Azorean dialect.

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Folha de S.Paulo

Folha de S.Paulo (sometimes spelled Folha de São Paulo), also known as simply Folha (Sheet), is a Brazilian daily newspaper founded in 1921 under the name Folha da Noite and published in São Paulo by the Folha da Manhã company.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Franco-Provençal

Franco-Provençal (also Francoprovençal, Patois or Arpitan) is a language within the Gallo-Romance family, originally spoken in east-central France, western Switzerland and northwestern Italy.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. Portuguese language and French language are Fusional languages, languages attested from the 9th century, lingua francas and Subject–verb–object languages.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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Gaúcho dialect

Gaúcho, more rarely called Sulriograndense, is the Brazilian Portuguese term for the characteristic accent spoken in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost state, including its capital, Porto Alegre.

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Galicia (Spain)

Galicia (Galicia (officially) or Galiza; Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.

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Galician language

Galician (galego), also known as Galego, is a Western Ibero-Romance language.

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Galician–Asturian

Galician–Asturian or Eonavian (autonym: fala; eonaviegu, gallego-asturianu; eonaviego, galego-asturiano) is a set of Romance dialects or falas whose linguistic dominion extends into the zone of Asturias between the Eo River and Navia River (or more specifically the Eo and the Frejulfe River).

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Galician–Portuguese

Galician–Portuguese (lingua vulgar; galego–portugués or galaico–portugués; galego–português or galaico–português), also known as Old Galician–Portuguese, Old Galician or Old Portuguese, Medieval Galician or Medieval Portuguese when referring to the history of each modern language, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula. Portuguese language and Galician–Portuguese are languages attested from the 9th century.

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Gallaeci

The Gallaeci (also Callaeci or Callaici; Καλλαϊκοί) were a Celtic tribal complex who inhabited Gallaecia, the north-western corner of Iberia, a region roughly corresponding to what is now the Norte Region in northern Portugal, and the Spanish regions of Galicia, western Asturias and western León before and during the Roman period.

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Gallaecia

Gallaecia, also known as Hispania Gallaecia, was the name of a Roman province in the north-west of Hispania, approximately present-day Galicia, northern Portugal, Asturias and Leon and the later Kingdom of Gallaecia.

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Gallaecian language

Gallaecian or Northwestern Hispano-Celtic is an extinct Celtic language of the Hispano-Celtic group.

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Gallo-Italic languages

The Gallo-Italic, Gallo-Italian, Gallo-Cisalpine or simply Cisalpine languages constitute the majority of the Romance languages of northern Italy: Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian, Ligurian, and Romagnol.

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Gallo-Romance languages

The Gallo-Romance branch of the Romance languages includes in the narrowest sense the langues d'oïl and Franco-Provençal.

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Garcia de Resende

Garcia de Resende (14703 February 1536) was a Portuguese poet and editor.

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Gaulish

Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire. Portuguese language and Gaulish are Subject–verb–object languages.

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Genoese dialect

Genoese, locally called zeneise or zeneize, is the prestige dialect of Ligurian, spoken in and around the Italian city of Genoa, the capital of Liguria.

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Georgian language

Georgian (ქართული ენა) is the most widely spoken Kartvelian language; it serves as the literary language or lingua franca for speakers of related languages.

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Gerald of Braga

Gerald of Braga was a bishop of Braga.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol. Portuguese language and German language are Fusional languages.

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Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.

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Germanic peoples

The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

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Goa

Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.

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Goiás

Goiás is a Brazilian state located in the Midwest region.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Gothic language

Gothic is an extinct East Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. Portuguese language and Gothic language are languages of Portugal.

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Grammatical number

In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").

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Grammatical person

In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).

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Greater Florianópolis

Grande Florianópolis is a mesoregion in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.

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Greater Rio de Janeiro

Greater Rio de Janeiro, officially the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region (Grande Rio, officially Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro, in Portuguese) is a large metropolitan area located in Rio de Janeiro state in Brazil, the second largest in Brazil and third largest in South America.

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Greater São Paulo

Greater São Paulo (Grande São Paulo) is a nonspecific term for one of the multiple definitions of the large metropolitan area located in the São Paulo state in Brazil.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. Portuguese language and Greek language are Fusional languages and Subject–verb–object languages.

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Guarani language

Guarani, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani (avañeʼẽ "the people's language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch of the Tupian language family. Portuguese language and Guarani language are languages of Brazil, languages of Paraguay and Subject–verb–object languages.

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Guilford Press

Guilford Press or Guilford Publications, Inc. is a New York City-based independent publisher founded in 1973 that specializes in publishing books and journals in psychology, psychiatry, the behavioral sciences, education, geography, and research methods.

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Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau (Guiné-Bissau; script; Mandinka: ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫ ߓߌߛߊߥߏ߫ Gine-Bisawo), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (República da Guiné-Bissau), is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778.

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Guinean Portuguese

Guinean Portuguese (Português Guineense) is the variety of Portuguese spoken in Guinea-Bissau, where it is the official language.

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Henriques (surname)

Henriques is a common surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil.

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Herrera de Alcántara

Herrera de Alcántara is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script. Portuguese language and Hindi are Fusional languages, languages of India and lingua francas.

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Hispania

Hispania (Hispanía; Hispānia) was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.

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Hispano-Celtic languages

Hispano-Celtic is a term for all forms of Celtic spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before the arrival of the Romans (c. 218 BC, during the Second Punic War).

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Hispanophone

Hispanophone refers to anything related to the Spanish language.

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Holy Week

Holy Week (lit) is the most sacred week in the liturgical year in Christianity.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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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, edited by Brazilian writer Antônio Houaiss.

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Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.

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Iberian Romance languages

The Iberian Romance, Ibero-Romance or sometimes Iberian languagesIberian languages is also used as a more inclusive term for all languages spoken on the Iberian Peninsula, which in antiquity included the non-Indo-European Iberian language. Portuguese language and Iberian Romance languages are languages of Portugal.

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Iberians

The Iberians (Hibērī, from Ἴβηρες, Iberes) were an ancient people settled in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian peninsula, at least from the 6th century BCE.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indigenous languages of the Americas

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue to be spoken.

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Indigenous peoples in Brazil

Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 tribes and nations inhabiting what is now Brazil, prior to European contact around 1500 AD.

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Indo-Portuguese creoles

Indo-Portuguese creoles are the several Portuguese creoles spoken in the erstwhile Portuguese Indian settlements, Cochin Portuguese Creole, Fort Bassein, Goa and Damaon, Portuguese Ceylon etc; in present-day India and Sri Lanka. Portuguese language and Indo-Portuguese creoles are languages of India.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Indonesian language

Indonesian is the official and national language of Indonesia. Portuguese language and Indonesian language are languages of East Timor and Subject–verb–object languages.

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Infinitive

Infinitive (abbreviated) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs.

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Inflection

In linguistic morphology, inflection (less commonly, inflexion) is a process of word formation in which a word is modified to express different grammatical categories such as tense, case, voice, aspect, person, number, gender, mood, animacy, and definiteness.

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Instituto Camões

The Instituto Camões (English: Camões Institute), formally, Camões — Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, I. P. (English: Camões — Institute for Cooperation and Language, Public Institute), is a Portuguese international institution dedicated to the worldwide promotion of the Portuguese language, Portuguese culture, and international aid, on behalf of the Government of Portugal.

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International Portuguese Language Institute

The International Portuguese Language Institute (Instituto Internacional da Língua Portuguesa, IILP) is the Community of Portuguese Language Countries's institute supporting the spread and popularity of the Portuguese language in the world.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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Isochrony

Isochrony is the postulated rhythmic division of time into equal portions by a language.

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Italian language

Italian (italiano,, or lingua italiana) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Portuguese language and italian language are Fusional languages and Subject–verb–object languages.

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Italic languages

The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC.

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Italo-Western languages

Italo-Western is, in some classifications, the largest branch of the Romance languages.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japanese Brazilians

are Brazilian citizens who are nationals or naturals of Japanese ancestry or Japanese immigrants living in Brazil or Japanese people of Brazilian ancestry.

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Japanese language

is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.

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Jersey

Jersey (label), officially known as the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an island country and self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Karipúna French Creole

Karipúna French Creole, also known as Amapá French Creole and Lanc-Patuá, is a French-based creole language spoken by the Karipúna community, which lives in the Uaçá Indian Reservation in the Brazilian state of Amapá, on the Curipi and Oyapock rivers. Portuguese language and Karipúna French Creole are languages of Brazil.

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Katana

A is a Japanese sword characterized by a curved, single-edged blade with a circular or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands.

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Kimbundu

Kimbundu, a Bantu language which has sometimes been called Mbundu or North Mbundu (to distinguish it from Umbundu, sometimes called South Mbundu), is the second-most-widely-spoken Bantu language in Angola. Portuguese language and Kimbundu are languages of Angola.

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Kingdom of Galicia

The Kingdom of Galicia (Reino de Galicia, or Galiza; Reino de Galicia; Reino da Galiza; Galliciense Regnum) was a political entity located in southwestern Europe, which at its territorial zenith occupied the entire northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Kingdom of León

The Kingdom of León was an independent kingdom situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula.

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Kingdom of the Suebi

The Kingdom of the Suebi (Regnum Suevorum), also called the Kingdom of Galicia (Regnum Galicia) or Suebi Kingdom of Galicia (Galicia suevorum regnum), was a Germanic post-Roman kingdom that was one of the first to separate from the Roman Empire.

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Konkani language

Konkani (Devanagari: sc, Romi: sc, Kannada: sc, Malayalam: sc, Perso-Arabic: sc, IAST) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily in the Konkan region, along the western coast of India.

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Kristang language

Papia Kristang or Kristang is a creole language spoken by the Kristang, a community of people of mixed Portuguese and indigenous Malay ancestry, chiefly in Malaysia (Malacca), Singapore and Perth, Australia.

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Kristang people

The Kristang (otherwise known as "Portuguese-Eurasians" or "Malacca Portuguese") are a creole and indigenous ethnic group of people of primarily Portuguese and Malay descent, with substantial Dutch, British, Jewish, Chinese and Indian ancestry.

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Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur (Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur; 吉隆坡联邦直辖区; கோலாலம்பூர் கூட்டரசு பிரதேசம்) and colloquially referred to as KL, is a federal territory and the capital city of Malaysia.

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La Alamedilla

La Alamedilla is a town and municipality in Spain, in the province of Salamanca, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Labialization

Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages.

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Languages of Europe

There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family.

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Larantuka

Larantuka (Larantuca) is a kecamatan (district) and the seat of East Flores Regency, on the eastern end of Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

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Lateral consonant

A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Portuguese language and Latin are Fusional languages and languages of Portugal.

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Latin America

Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Latino-Faliscan languages

The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family.

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Latium

Latium is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.

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Leonese language

Leonese (llionés, lleonés) is a set of vernacular Romance language varieties currently spoken in northern and western portions of the historical region of León in Spain (the modern provinces of León, Zamora, and Salamanca), the village of Riudenore (in both Spain and Portugal) and Guadramil in Portugal, sometimes considered another language.

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Lingua franca

A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages. Portuguese language and lingua franca are lingua francas.

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Linguistic discrimination

Linguistic discrimination (also called glottophobia, linguicism and languagism) is unfair treatment of people based on their use of language and the characteristics of their speech, including their first language, their accent, the perceived size of their vocabulary (whether or not the speaker uses complex and varied words), their modality, and their syntax.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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Lisbon Academy of Sciences

The Academy of Sciences of Lisbon (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa) is Portugal's national academy dedicated to the advancement of sciences and learning, with the goal of promoting academic progress and prosperity in Portugal.

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Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Class of Letters

The Class of Letters (Portuguese: Classe de Letras) of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences holds an official consultative role on the Portuguese language in Portugal.

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List of common Chinese surnames

These are lists of the most common Chinese surnames in China (People's Republic of China), Taiwan (Republic of China), and the Chinese diaspora overseas as provided by authoritative government or academic sources.

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List of countries and territories where Portuguese is an official language

The following is a list of the nine sovereign states and one territory where Portuguese is an official language. Portuguese language and list of countries and territories where Portuguese is an official language are community of Portuguese Language Countries.

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List of international organisations which have Portuguese as an official language

This is a list of international organisations which have Portuguese as an official, administrative or working language.

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List of languages by number of native speakers

Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows.

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List of Portuguese-language poets

The following is a list of famous or notable Portuguese language poets.

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List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

This is a list of the pre-Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania, i.e., modern Portugal, Spain and Andorra).

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Loanword

A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.

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Luís de Camões

Luís Vaz de Camões (or 1525 – 10 June 1580), sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns, is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet.

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Lusitanian language

Lusitanian (so named after the Lusitani or Lusitanians) was an Indo-European Paleohispanic language. Portuguese language and Lusitanian language are languages of Portugal.

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Lusitanians

The Lusitanians were an Indo-European-speaking people living in the far west of the Iberian Peninsula, in present-day central Portugal and Extremadura and Castilla y Leon of Spain.

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Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.

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Lyric poetry

Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.

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Macanese Portuguese

Macanese Portuguese (português macaense) is a Portuguese dialect spoken in Macau, where Portuguese is co-official with Cantonese. Portuguese language and Macanese Portuguese are languages of Macau.

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Macau

Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Macedonian language

Macedonian (македонски јазик) is an Eastern South Slavic language.

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Madeira

Madeira, officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Região Autónoma da Madeira), is one of two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being the Azores.

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Malay language

Malay (Bahasa Melayu, Jawi: بهاس ملايو) is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand. Portuguese language and Malay language are languages of East Timor.

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Malayalam

Malayalam is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. Portuguese language and Malayalam are languages attested from the 9th century.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Manado Malay

Manado Malay, or simply the Manado language, is a creole language spoken in Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province in Indonesia, and the surrounding area.

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Manaus

Manaus is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

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Maranhão

Maranhão is a state in Brazil.

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Marathi language

Marathi (मराठी) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Portuguese language and Marathi language are languages of India.

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Mato Grosso do Sul

Mato Grosso do Sul is one of Brazil's 27 federal units, located in the southern part of the Central-West Region, bordering five Brazilian states: Mato Grosso (to the north), Goiás and Minas Gerais (northeast), São Paulo (east) and Paraná (southeast); and two South America countries: Paraguay (south and southwestern) and Bolivia (west).

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Matteo Ricci

Matteo Ricci (Matthaeus Riccius; 6 October 1552 – 11 May 1610) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China missions.

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Mauritius

Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.

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Médecins Sans Frontières

italic (MSF; pronounced), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is a charity that provides humanitarian medical care. It is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) of French origin known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases.

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Megalith

A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a prehistoric structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones.

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Mercosur

The Southern Common Market, commonly known by Spanish abbreviation Mercosur, and Portuguese Mercosul, is a South American trade bloc established by the Treaty of Asunción in 1991 and Protocol of Ouro Preto in 1994.

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Michele Ruggieri

Michele Ruggieri, SJ (born Pompilio Ruggieri and known in China as Luo Mingjian; 1543 – 11 May 1607) was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary.

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Migration Period

The Migration Period (circa 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman kingdoms.

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Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

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Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 census.

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Mineiro

Mineiro, Mineirês, or the Brazilian mountain accent (montanhês) is the Brazilian Portuguese term for the accent spoken in the Center, East and Southeast regions of the state of Minas Gerais.

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Mirandese language

Mirandese (mirandés or lhéngua mirandesa) is an Asturleonese language or variety that is sparsely spoken in a small area of northeastern Portugal in eastern Tierra de Miranda (made up of the municipalities of Miranda de l Douro, Mogadouro and Bumioso, being extinct in Mogadouro and present in Bumioso only in some eastern villages, like Angueira). Portuguese language and mirandese language are languages of Portugal.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Moissac

Moissac is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.

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Mondego River

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Mozambican Portuguese

Mozambican Portuguese (português moçambicano) refers to the varieties of Portuguese spoken in Mozambique.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.

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Mozarabs

The Mozarabs (from lit), or more precisely Andalusi Christians, were the Christians of al-Andalus, or the territories of Iberia under Muslim rule from 711 to 1492.

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Museum of the Portuguese Language

The Museum of the Portuguese Language (Museu da Língua Portuguesa) is an interactive Portuguese language—and Linguistics/Language Development in general—museum in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula

The Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, also known as the Arab conquest of Spain, by the Umayyad Caliphate occurred between approximately 711 and the 720s.

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Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Nasal palatal approximant

The nasal palatal approximant is a type of consonantal sound used in some oral languages.

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Nasal vowel

A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the soft palate (or velum) so that the air flow escapes through the nose and the mouth simultaneously, as in the French vowel /ɑ̃/ or Amoy.

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Nasalization

In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth.

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Navia (river)

The Navia is a river in northern Spain flowing South to North from Galicia into the Autonomous Community of Asturias.

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Neapolitan language

Neapolitan (autonym: ('o n)napulitano; napoletano) is a Romance language of the Italo-Romance group spoken in Naples and most of continental Southern Italy.

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Nheengatu language

The Nheengatu or Nenhengatu language (Tupi:, Nheengatu from Rio Negro: yẽgatu, Traditional Nheengatu: nhẽẽgatú and Tapajoawaran Nheengatu: nheẽgatu), or Nenhengatu, also known as Modern Tupi and Amazonic Tupi, is a Tupi–Guarani language.

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Nippo Jisho

The or Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam (Vocabulário da Língua do Japão in modern Portuguese; "Vocabulary of the Language of Japan" in English) is a Japanese-to-Portuguese dictionary compiled by Jesuit missionaries and published in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1603.

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North coast Portuguese

North coast dialect (dialeto da costa norte), also called Cearense dialect, is a dialect of Portuguese in the Brazilian state of Ceará, having many internal variations, like in the regions Jaguaribe and Sertões (back-countries).

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North Region, Brazil

The North Region of Brazil (Região Norte do Brasil) is the largest region of Brazil, accounting for 45.27% of the national territory.

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Occitan language

Occitan (occitan), also known as (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, sometimes also referred to as Provençal, is a Romance language spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Italy's Occitan Valleys, as well as Spain's Val d'Aran in Catalonia; collectively, these regions are sometimes referred to as Occitania.

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Official language

An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.

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Olavo Bilac

Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac (16 December 1865 – 28 December 1918), known simply as Olavo Bilac, was a Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator.

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Old French

Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.

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Old Latin

Old Latin, also known as Early, Archaic or Priscan Latin (Classical lit), was the Latin language in the period roughly before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin.

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Oliventine Portuguese

Oliventine Portuguese (also known as Portuguese from Olivença) is the dialectal variety of the Portuguese language natively spoken in the disputed municipalities of Olivença and Táliga, in Extremadura (Spain). Portuguese language and Oliventine Portuguese are languages of Portugal.

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Olivenza

Olivenza or Olivença is a town in southwestern Spain, close to the Portugal–Spain border.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

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Open-mid vowel

An open-mid vowel (also mid-open vowel, low-mid vowel, mid-low vowel or half-open vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.

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Orange (fruit)

An orange, also called sweet orange when it is desired to distinguish it from the bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium), is the fruit of a tree in the family Rutaceae.

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Organization of American States

The Organization of American States (OAS or OEA; Organización de los Estados Americanos; Organização dos Estados Americanos; Organisation des États américains) is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.

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Organization of Ibero-American States

The Organization of Ibero-American States (Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos, Organização de Estados Iberoamericanos, Organització d'Estats Iberoamericans; abbreviated as OEI), formally the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture, is an international organization made up of 23 members states of Iberophone nations in Europe and the Americas, as well as one member in Africa.

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Os Lusíadas

Os Lusíadas, usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem written by Luís Vaz de Camões (– 1580) and first published in 1572.

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Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

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Pan South African Language Board

The Pan South African Language Board (Pan-Suid-Afrikaanse Taalraad, abbreviated PanSALB) is an organisation in South Africa established to promote multilingualism, to develop the, and to protect language rights in South Africa.

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Paraguay

Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America.

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Paraná (state)

Paraná is one of the 26 states of Brazil, in the south of the country.

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Patronymic surname

A patronymic surname is a surname originated from the given name of the father or a patrilineal ancestor.

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Paulista General Language

The Paulista General Language, also called Southern General Language and Austral Tupi, was a lingua franca and creole language formed in the 16th century, in the Captaincy of São Vicente.

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Paulistano dialect

Paulistano is the Brazilian Portuguese term for the characteristic accent spoken in São Paulo, Brazil's largest and richest city, and some neighboring areas in the São Paulo Macrometropolis.

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Peneda-Gerês National Park

The Peneda-Gerês National Park (Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês), also known simply as Gerês, is a national park located in northern Portugal.

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Peru–Bolivian Confederation

The Peru–Bolivian Confederation (Confederación Perú-Boliviana) was a short-lived state that existed in South America between 1836 and 1839.

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Phoneme

In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.

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Phonetics

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign.

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Piauí

Piauí is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region.

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Pidgin

A pidgin, or pidgin language, is a grammatically simplified means of communication that develops between two or more groups of people that do not have a language in common: typically, its vocabulary and grammar are limited and often drawn from several languages.

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Pineapple

The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible fruit; it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae.

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Pluperfect

The pluperfect (shortening of plusquamperfect), usually called past perfect in English, is a type of verb form, generally treated as a grammatical tense in certain languages, relating to an action that occurred prior to an aforementioned time in the past.

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Popcorn

Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns, or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated; the same names also refer to the foodstuff produced by the expansion.

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Porto

Porto, also known as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon.

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Portuñol

Portuñol (Spanish spelling) or Portunhol (Portuguese spelling) is a portmanteau of the words portugués/português ("Portuguese") and español/espanhol ("Spanish"), and is the name often given to any non-systematic mixture of Portuguese and Spanish (this sense should not be confused with the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in northern Uruguay by the Brazilian border, known by several names, among them Portuñol). Portuguese language and Portuñol are languages of Brazil and languages of Uruguay.

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Portugal

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.

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Portuguese Africans

Portuguese Africans (luso-africanos) are Portuguese people born or permanently settled in Africa (they should not be confused with Portuguese of Black African ancestry).

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Portuguese Braille

Portuguese Braille is the braille alphabet of the Portuguese language, both in Portugal and in Brazil.

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Portuguese Empire

The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal.

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Portuguese India

The State of India (Estado da Índia), also referred as the Portuguese State of India (Estado Português da India, EPI) or simply Portuguese India (Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of a sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal.

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Portuguese language in Africa

Portuguese is spoken in a number of African countries and is the official language in six African countries: Angola, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe.

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Portuguese language in Asia

The Portuguese language is spoken in Asia by small communities either in regions which formerly served as colonies to Portugal, notably Macau and East Timor where the language is official albeit not widely spoken, Lusophone immigrants, notably the Brazilians in Japan or by some Afro-Asians and Luso-Asians.

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Portuguese language in Goa

The Portuguese controlled Goa until 1961, when India took over.

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Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990

The Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 (Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa de 1990) is an international treaty whose purpose is to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language, to be used by all the countries that have Portuguese as their official language.

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Portuguese literature

Portuguese literature is literature written in the Portuguese language, from the Portuguese-speaking world.

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Portuguese orthography

Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes.

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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

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Portuguese poetry

Portuguese poetry refers to diverse kinds of poetic writings produced in Portuguese.

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Portuguese-based creole languages

Portuguese creoles (crioulo) are creole languages which have Portuguese as their substantial lexifier.

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Portuguese-speaking African countries

The Portuguese-speaking African countries (Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa; PALOP), also known as Lusophone Africa, consist of six African countries in which the Portuguese language is an official language: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and, since 2011, Equatorial Guinea. Portuguese language and Portuguese-speaking African countries are community of Portuguese Language Countries.

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Portuguese-speaking world

The Portuguese-speaking world, also known as the Lusophone World (Mundo Lusófono), comprises the countries and territories in which the Portuguese language is an official, administrative, cultural, or secondary language.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.

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Present perfect

The present perfect is a grammatical combination of the present tense and perfect aspect that is used to express a past event that has present consequences.

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Prestige (sociolinguistics)

In sociolinguistics, prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects.

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Princeton University Press

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.

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Proto-Romance language

Proto-Romance is the comparatively reconstructed ancestor of the Romance languages.

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Province of León

León is a province of northwestern Spain in the northern part of the Region of León and in the northwestern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Province of Zamora

Zamora is a province of western Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Castile and León.

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Punjabi language

Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. Portuguese language and Punjabi language are Fusional languages and languages of India.

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Recife

Recife is the state capital of Pernambuco, Brazil, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America.

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Reintegrationism

Reintegrationism (Galician and reintegracionismo) or Lusism is a linguistic movement in Galicia that advocates for the recognition of Galician, along with other varieties of the Portuguese language, as a single language.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Renaissance Latin

Renaissance Latin is a name given to the distinctive form of Literary Latin style developed during the European Renaissance of the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries, particularly by the Renaissance humanism movement.

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Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, West Congo, Congo Republic, ROC, ROTC, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River.

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Resende, Portugal

Resende is a municipality in the Viseu District in Portugal.

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Rio de Janeiro (state)

Rio de Janeiro is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil.

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Rio Grande do Sul

Rio Grande do Sul ("Great River of the South") is a state in the southern region of Brazil.

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Rioplatense Spanish

Rioplatense Spanish, also known as Rioplatense Castilian, or River Plate Spanish, is a variety of SpanishAlvar, Manuel, "Manual de dialectología hispánica. Portuguese language and Rioplatense Spanish are languages of Uruguay.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Romance languages

The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin. Portuguese language and Romance languages are Fusional languages.

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Romani people

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.

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Romanian language

Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; limba română, or românește) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova.

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Romanization

In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.

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Romansh language

Romansh is a Gallo-Romance language spoken predominantly in the Swiss canton of the Grisons (Graubünden).

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Rondônia

Rondônia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northern subdivision of the country (central-western part).

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San Martín de Trevejo

San Martín de Trevejo (Sa Martín de Trevellu) is a municipality (''municipio'') located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

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Sardinian language

Sardinian or Sard (sardu,, limba sarda,, or lìngua sarda) is a Romance language spoken by the Sardinians on the Western Mediterranean island of Sardinia.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and the capital of the state of São Paulo.

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São Paulo (state)

São Paulo is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus.

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São Tomé and Príncipe

São Tomé and Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, the western equatorial coast of Central Africa.

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São Tomean Portuguese

São Toméan Portuguese (português santomense or português de São Tomé) is a dialect of Portuguese spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe.

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Second language

A second language (L2) is a language spoken in addition to one's first language (L1).

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Semivowel

In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Sertão

The sertão (plural sertões) is the "hinterland" or "backcountry" of Brazil.

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Sibilant

Sibilants (from sībilāns: 'hissing') are fricative consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth.

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Sikka Regency

Sikka is a regency within East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, on the island of Flores.

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Sinhala language

Sinhala (Sinhala: සිංහල), sometimes called Sinhalese, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million. Portuguese language and Sinhala language are Fusional languages.

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Social stigma

Social stigma is the disapproval of, or discrimination against, an individual or group based on perceived characteristics that serve to distinguish them from other members of a society.

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Sociolect

In sociolinguistics, a sociolect is a form of language (non-standard dialect, restricted register) or a set of lexical items used by a socioeconomic class, profession, age group, or other social group.

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Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on language and the ways it is used.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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South Region, Brazil

The South Region of Brazil (Região Sul do Brasil) is one of the five regions of Brazil.

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Southern Africa

Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.

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Southern African Development Community

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana.

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Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half (hemisphere) of Earth that is south of the Equator.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Portuguese language and Spanish language are Fusional languages, languages of Paraguay, languages of Uruguay, lingua francas and Subject–verb–object languages.

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Spanish phonology

This article is about the phonology and phonetics of the Spanish language.

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Special administrative regions of China

The special administrative regions (SAR) of the People's Republic of China are one of four types of province-level divisions of the People's Republic of China directly under the control of its Central People's Government (State Council), being integral areas of the country.

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Sranan Tongo

Sranan Tongo (Sranantongo "Surinamese tongue", Sranan, Surinaams, Surinamese, Surinamese Creole) is an English-based creole language that is spoken as a lingua franca by approximately 519,600 people in Suriname.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Sri Lankan Tamils

Sri Lankan Tamils, also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to the South Asian island state of Sri Lanka.

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Subjunctive mood

The subjunctive (also known as conjunctive in some languages) is a grammatical mood, a feature of an utterance that indicates the speaker's attitude toward it.

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Suebi

The Suebi (also spelled Suevi) or Suebians were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic.

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Swahili language

Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). Portuguese language and Swahili language are languages of Angola and languages of Mozambique.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Taíno language

Taíno is an extinct Arawakan language that was spoken by the Taíno people of the Caribbean.

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Tap and flap consonants

In phonetics, a flap or tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown against another.

See Portuguese language and Tap and flap consonants

Tetum language

Tetum (Tetun; Bahasa Tetun; Tétum) is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Timor. Portuguese language and Tetum language are languages of East Timor and Subject–verb–object languages.

See Portuguese language and Tetum language

The World Factbook

The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.

See Portuguese language and The World Factbook

Time in Brazil

Time in Brazil is calculated using standard time, and the country (including its offshore islands) is divided into four standard time zones: UTC−02:00, UTC−03:00, UTC−04:00 and UTC−05:00.

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Tocantins

Tocantins is one of the 26 states of Brazil.

See Portuguese language and Tocantins

Toponymic surname

A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name,, by Benjamin Z. Kedar.

See Portuguese language and Toponymic surname

Toponymy

Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.

See Portuguese language and Toponymy

Toucan

Toucans are Neotropical birds in the family Ramphastidae.

See Portuguese language and Toucan

Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil

The Portuguese royal court transferred from Lisbon to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in a strategic retreat of Queen Maria I of Portugal, prince regent John, the Braganza royal family, its court, and senior officials, totaling nearly 10,000 people, on 27 November 1807.

See Portuguese language and Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil

Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Province

Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro is a historical province of Portugal located in the northeastern corner of the country, known for its scenery, which includes plateaux, river valleys, mountains, and castles.

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Triângulo Mineiro

The Triângulo Mineiro (Mineiro Triangle) is the region that comprises the west part of the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil.

See Portuguese language and Triângulo Mineiro

Tsonga language

Tsonga or, natively, Xitsonga, as an endonym, is a Bantu language spoken by the Tsonga people of South Africa. Portuguese language and Tsonga language are languages of Mozambique.

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Tupi language

Old Tupi, Ancient Tupi or Classical Tupi is a classical Tupian language which was spoken by the indigenous Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who inhabited coastal regions in South and Southeast Brazil.

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Tupi–Guarani languages

Tupi–Guarani (/tuːˈpiː ɡwɑˈrɑːni/ /ɡwɑˈɾɑ-/; Tupi-Guarani) is the most widely distributed subfamily of the Tupian languages of South America.

See Portuguese language and Tupi–Guarani languages

UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Union of South American Nations

The Union of South American Nations (USAN), sometimes also referred to as the South American Union, abbreviated in Spanish as UNASUR and in Portuguese as UNASUL, is an intergovernmental regional organization.

See Portuguese language and Union of South American Nations

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.

See Portuguese language and Universal Declaration of Human Rights

University of Coimbra

The University of Coimbra (UC; Universidade de Coimbra) is a public research university in Coimbra, Portugal.

See Portuguese language and University of Coimbra

University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne (also colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia.

See Portuguese language and University of Melbourne

Uruguay

Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.

See Portuguese language and Uruguay

Uruguayan Portuguese

Uruguayan Portuguese (português uruguaio), also known as fronteiriço and riverense, and referred to by its speakers as portunhol, is a variety of Portuguese in South America with heavy influence from Rioplatense Spanish. Portuguese language and Uruguayan Portuguese are languages of Brazil and languages of Uruguay.

See Portuguese language and Uruguayan Portuguese

Uvular consonant

Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants.

See Portuguese language and Uvular consonant

Valverde del Fresno

Valverde del Fresno (Valverdi el Fresnu, Valverdi du Fresnu) is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

See Portuguese language and Valverde del Fresno

Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

See Portuguese language and Velar consonant

Venezuela

Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.

See Portuguese language and Venezuela

Vernacular

Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.

See Portuguese language and Vernacular

Vietnamese alphabet

The Vietnamese alphabet (lit) is the modern writing script for Vietnamese.

See Portuguese language and Vietnamese alphabet

Visigoths

The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.

See Portuguese language and Visigoths

Vocabulary

A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual.

See Portuguese language and Vocabulary

Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

See Portuguese language and Voice (phonetics)

Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar trills

The voiced alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.

See Portuguese language and Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar trills

Voiced uvular fricative

The voiced uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

See Portuguese language and Voiced uvular fricative

Voiced uvular trill

The voiced uvular trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

See Portuguese language and Voiced uvular trill

Voiceless glottal fricative

The voiceless glottal fricative, sometimes called voiceless glottal transition or the aspirate, is a type of sound used in some spoken languages that patterns like a fricative or approximant consonant phonologically, but often lacks the usual phonetic characteristics of a consonant.

See Portuguese language and Voiceless glottal fricative

Voiceless uvular fricative

The voiceless uvular fricative is a type of consonantal sound that is used in some spoken languages.

See Portuguese language and Voiceless uvular fricative

Voiceless velar fricative

The voiceless velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.

See Portuguese language and Voiceless velar fricative

Voicelessness

In linguistics, voicelessness is the property of sounds being pronounced without the larynx vibrating.

See Portuguese language and Voicelessness

Vowel

A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.

See Portuguese language and Vowel

Vulgar Latin

Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward.

See Portuguese language and Vulgar Latin

Welsh language

Welsh (Cymraeg or y Gymraeg) is a Celtic language of the Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Portuguese language and Welsh language are Fusional languages.

See Portuguese language and Welsh language

West Iberian languages

West Iberian is a branch of the Ibero-Romance languages that includes the Castilian languages (Spanish, Judaeo-Spanish), Astur-Leonese (Asturian, Leonese, Mirandese, Extremaduran (sometimes) and Cantabrian),, where Cantabrian is listed in the Astur-Leonese linguistic group.

See Portuguese language and West Iberian languages

Western Europe

Western Europe is the western region of Europe.

See Portuguese language and Western Europe

Western Romance languages

Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line.

See Portuguese language and Western Romance languages

Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.

See Portuguese language and Zambia

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.

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Zona da Mata

The Zona da Mata ("Forest Belt") is the narrow coastal plain between the Atlantic Ocean and the dry agreste and sertão regions in the northeastern Brazilian states of Maranhão, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia.

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Zona da Mata (Minas Gerais)

Zona da Mata is a mesoregion of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, situated in the southeastern part of the state, along the border of the states of Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo.

See Portuguese language and Zona da Mata (Minas Gerais)

See also

Community of Portuguese Language Countries

• ACOLOP
• CPLP Games
• Community of Portuguese Language Countries
• Executive Secretary of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries
• Flag of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries
• International Association of Portuguese-Speaking Communications
• List of countries and territories where Portuguese is an official language
• List of diplomatic missions in Portugal
• Lusofonia Games
• Member states of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries
• Penafiel Palace
• Portuguese language
• Portuguese-speaking African countries
• Three Linguistic Spaces
• University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony
• World Portuguese Language Day

Fusional languages

• American Sign Language
• Amharic
• Arabic
• Caribbean Hindustani
• Danish language
• English language
• French language
• Fusional language
• German language
• Greek language
• Hausa language
• Hebrew language
• Hindi
• Interlingua
• Irish language
• Italian language
• Ithkuil
• Khalsa bole
• Latin
• Mandaic language
• Navajo language
• Nepali language
• Norwegian language
• Pashto
• Pennsylvania Dutch language
• Portuguese language
• Punjabi language
• Romance languages
• Scottish Gaelic
• Semitic languages
• Sindarin
• Sinhala language
• Skolt Sámi
• Slavic languages
• Spanish language
• Standard German
• Suret language
• Tigrinya language
• Urdu
• Venedic language
• Welsh language

Languages attested from the 9th century

• Andalusi Arabic
• Balinese language
• Breton language
• Cornish language
• Daylami language
• French language
• Galician–Portuguese
• Javanese language
• Khmer language
• Malayalam
• Mercian dialect
• Middle Turkic languages
• Old Church Slavonic
• Old Javanese
• Old Polish
• Portuguese language
• Siculo-Arabic
• West Saxon dialect

Languages of Angola

• Angolan Portuguese
• Bolo language
• Chokwe language
• Dciriku language
• Hakaona language
• Ibinda
• Kimbundu
• Kongo language
• Kuvale language
• Kwadi language
• Kwangali language
• Kwanyama dialect
• Kxʼa languages
• Languages of Angola
• Lari people (Congo)
• Luchazi
• Luimbi language
• Lunda language
• Luvale language
• Mbali language
• Mbukushu language
• Mbunda language
• Mpinda language
• Ngambwe language
• Ngoya language
• Nkumbi language
• Nyaneka language
• Nyengo language
• Ovambo language
• Portuguese language
• Ruund language
• Sama language (Angola)
• Sekele language
• Swahili language
• Umbundu
• Vili people
• Yaka language (Congo–Angola)
• Zemba language
• Zorotua dialect
• ǃKung languages

Languages of Cape Verde

• Cape Verdean Creole
• Cape Verdean Portuguese
• Portuguese language

Languages of East Timor

• Atauran language
• Bidau Creole Portuguese
• Bunak language
• East Timorese Portuguese
• Fataluku language
• Galoli language
• Habun language
• Idalaka language
• Indonesian language
• Kairui-Midiki language
• Kawaimina languages
• Kemak language
• Languages of East Timor
• Makalero
• Makasae language
• Makuva language
• Malay language
• Mambai language (Timor)
• Naueti language
• Oirata–Makasae languages
• Portuguese language
• Rote–Meto languages
• Rusenu language
• Tetum language
• Timoric languages
• Tokodede language
• Uab Meto language
• Waimoa language
• Welaun language

Languages of Guinea-Bissau

• Badyara language
• Balanta languages
• Banyun language
• Bayot language
• Biafada language
• Bijago language
• Fula language
• Guinea-Bissau Creole
• Guinea-Bissau Sign Language
• Jola-Felupe language
• Kasanga language
• Kobiana language
• Languages of Guinea-Bissau
• Mandinka language
• Manjak language
• Nalu language
• Portuguese language
• Soninke language
• Sua language
• Susu language

Languages of Macau

• Cantonese
• Chinese language
• Hong Kong Sign Language
• Macanese Patois
• Macanese Portuguese
• Macau Government Cantonese Romanization
• Portuguese language

Languages of Mozambique

• Chewa language
• Chopi language
• Chuwabu language
• Dema language
• Koti language
• Kunda language
• Languages of Mozambique
• Lomwe language
• Makhuwa language
• Makwe language
• Malawi Lomwe language
• Moniga language
• Mozambican Sign Language
• Mwani language
• Ngoni language
• Nguni languages
• Nsenga language
• Nyungwe language
• Portuguese language
• Ronga language
• Sena language
• Shona language
• Swahili language
• Swazi language
• Tonga language (Mozambique)
• Tonga language (Zambia and Zimbabwe)
• Tsonga language
• Tswa–Ronga languages
• Yao language

Languages of Paraguay

• Aché language
• Angaité language
• Ava Guarani language
• Ayoreo language
• Chaco linguistic area
• Chamacoco language
• Chorote languages
• Eastern Bolivian Guaraní language
• Enlhet language
• Enxet language
• Guarani dialects
• Guarani language
• Guarani languages
• Iyoʼwujwa Chorote
• Jopara
• Kaskihá language
• Languages of Paraguay
• Maká language
• Mascoian languages
• Mbyá Guaraní language
• Nivaclé language
• Pai Tavytera language
• Paraguayan Sign Language
• Paraguayan Spanish
• Plautdietsch
• Plautdietsch language
• Portuguese language
• Sanapaná language
• Spanish language
• Toba Qom language
• Toba-Maskoy language

Languages of Portugal

• Alentejan Portuguese
• Andalusi Arabic
• Andalusi Romance
• Barranquenho
• Caló language
• Cape Verdian Sign Language
• Galician-Portuguese
• Gothic language
• Iberian Romance languages
• Judaeo-Portuguese
• Languages of Portugal
• Languages of the Iberian Peninsula
• Latin
• Lusitanian language
• Minderico language
• Mirandese language
• Oliventine Portuguese
• Paleohispanic languages
• Portuguese Sign Language
• Portuguese language
• Romani language

Languages of São Tomé and Príncipe

• Angolar Creole
• Fang language
• Forro Creole
• Languages of São Tomé and Príncipe
• Portuguese language
• Principense Creole
• São Tomé and Príncipe Sign Language

Languages of Uruguay

• Chaná language
• Charruan languages
• Lunfardo
• Plautdietsch
• Plautdietsch language
• Portuñol
• Portuguese language
• Rioplatense Spanish
• Spanish language
• Uruguayan Portuguese
• Uruguayan Sign Language
• Uruguayan Spanish
• Vesre

Lingua francas

• Ajem-Turkic
• Arabic
• Chagatai language
• Chinese language
• English language
• French language
• Hindi
• Hindustani language
• Kumyk language
• Lingua franca
• List of lingua francas
• Mediterranean Lingua Franca
• Meitei language
• Nepali language
• Portuguese language
• Russian language
• Sogdian language
• Spanish language
• Urdu

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language

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