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7 de fev. de 2019 · Portuguese ( português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula. It is the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé and Príncipe. [7] It also has co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea and Macau in ...
Portuguese grammar. In Portuguese grammar, nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and articles are moderately inflected: there are two genders (masculine and feminine) and two numbers (singular and plural). The case system of the ancestor language, Latin, has been lost, but personal pronouns are still declined with three main types of forms: subject ...
For the distinction between [ ], / / and , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Portuguese dialects are the mutually intelligible variations of the Portuguese language in Portuguese-speaking countries and other areas holding some degree of cultural bond with the language. Portuguese has two standard forms of writing and numerous ...
Mirandese – A language or variety of the Astur-Leonese group spoken in Tierra de Miranda in northeastern Portugal, recognized officially as a minority language in 1999. Portuguese Sign Language In addition, it is estimated that 42.8% of Portuguese adults (aged 18–64) spoke English, 15.4% spoke French and 10.6% spoke Spanish as foreign languages as of 2016.
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. In Larantuka, Indonesia and Daman and ...
The only possible codas in European Portuguese are /ʃ/, /l/ and /ɾ/ and in Brazilian Portuguese /s/ and /ʁ/ (or, in a minority of dialects, /ʃ, ɾ/ or any combination of the former with the latter). The consonants / ʎ / and / ɲ / almost always occur in the middle of a word and between vowels and rarely occur before /i/.
Etymology. Its original endonym Papia Kristang is taken from Portuguese papear cristão ("to chat Christian"). An alternate etymology supporting the differentiation of the Kristang ethnicity and language from the Christian religion as part of revitalisation efforts in Singapore was also proposed in 2022, namely a portmanteau of Greek χρυσός (chrysos, meaning gold) and Dutch steen (stone).
