Portuguese is the third most spoken language of the Americas, and the second most spoken language in South America. It is the sole official language of...
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the early Portuguese colonization of the Americas. Portugal colonized parts of South America (Brazil; Colónia do Sacramento, in Uruguay; Guanare, in Venezuela)...
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Portuguese, in the 15th and 16th centuries, with the Portuguese discoveries, the language was taken to many regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas...
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African origin, the largest percentage of any creole in the Americas. Source languages for these words include Kikongo, Gbe languages, and Twi. To English-speakers...
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dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal. The word "European" was chosen to avoid the clash of "Portuguese Portuguese" ("português português")...
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Portuguese colonization of the Americas (Portuguese: Colonização portuguesa da América) constituted territories in the Americas belonging to the Kingdom...
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Portuguese is spoken in a number of African countries and is the official language in five African countries: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and...
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largest Portuguese-speaking nation and the only one in the Americas where Portuguese is the official language, as stated in Article 13 of the Constitution...
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The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...
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The Portuguese-speaking African countries (Portuguese: Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa; PALOP), also known as Lusophone Africa, consist...
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Portuguese creoles (Portuguese: crioulo) are creole languages which have Portuguese as their substantial lexifier. The most widely-spoken creoles influenced...
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American Portuguese may refer to: Portuguese language in the United States Portuguese language in the Americas Portuguese Americans, American people of...
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however, Portuguese is spoken by the majority. Angola does not have an official language at the federal level however, Portuguese is spoken by the majority...
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distribution of all Portuguese-speakers or Lusophones, regardless of legislative status. Portuguese is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and...
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the use of West European languages: primarily Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, and, to a lesser extent, Dutch. The Americas are home to more than a...
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Portuguese Americans (Portuguese: portugueses americanos), also known as Luso-Americans (luso-americanos), are citizens and residents of the United States...
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a variety of Portuguese in South America with heavy influence from Rioplatense Spanish. It is spoken in north-eastern Uruguay, near the Brazilian border...
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the most spoken language in the Americas, is also the most spoken language of the continent South America, and with Portuguese as a close second in South...
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Portuguese-language literature can be: Angolan literature Brazilian literature Cape Verdean literature Latin American literature Literature of Equatorial...
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The Portuguese language developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin spoken by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd century BC. Old...
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the population of South America, making Portuguese the most spoken official Romance language in a single country. Portuguese is the official language...
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different indigenous languages spoken across the Americas, with 574 federally recognized tribes in the United States alone. Some languages, including Quechua...
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This is a list of the 50 largest cities in the Americas by population residing within city limits based on the most recent official census results, estimates...
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about a fifth of Portugal's per-capita income. When King Philip II of Spain (Philip I of Portugal) seized the Portuguese crown and Portuguese territories such...
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orthography for the Portuguese language, to be used by all the countries that have Portuguese as their official language. It was signed in Lisbon, on 16...
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Portuguese and Spanish, although closely related Romance languages, differ in many aspects of their phonology, grammar, and lexicon. Both belong to a...
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The Portuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country...
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most frequently due to innovations in Portuguese, producing the modern languages of Galician and Portuguese. The lexicon of Galician is predominantly...
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located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese). The Americas are almost entirely located in the Western Hemisphere...
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Ibero-America (Spanish: Iberoamérica, Portuguese: Ibero-América) or Iberian America is generally considered to be the region in the Americas comprising...
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