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    given at Portuguese phonology. This article addresses the less trivial details of the spelling of Portuguese as well as other issues of orthography, such...
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  • century. The formation of the Portuguese Republic in 1911 was motivation for the establishment of orthographic reform in Portugal and its overseas territories...
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  • 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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  • The 1943 Portuguese Orthographic Form, approved on August 12, 1943, is a set of instructions established by the Brazilian Academy of Letters for the subsequent...
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    from all countries with Portuguese as the official language, reached an agreement on the reform of the Portuguese orthography to unify the two standards...
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    sounds in Portuguese, including vowels, consonants and diphthongs, most of which exist in today's Celtic languages. Portuguese orthography is based on...
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  • S
    the voiced alveolar or voiced dental sibilant /z/, as in Portuguese mesa (table). In Portuguese, it may represent the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative...
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  • E
    the letter is silent, generally at the end of words like queue. In the orthography of many languages it represents either [e], [e̞], [ɛ], or some variation...
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    Equatorial Guinea. There are Portuguese-speaking communities in most countries of Southern Africa, a mixture of Portuguese settlers and Angolans and Mozambicans...
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    the first Europeans to reach Japan. As soon as the first Portuguese arrived in 1543, Portuguese traders and merchants began looking for trading opportunities...
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  • otherwise spelled n-. Early romanizations of Japanese, influenced by Portuguese orthography, sometimes used nh to represent a prepalatal. Today, this is usually...
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  • Filipe (category Portuguese masculine given names)
    in archaic Portuguese orthography). There are several Spanish kings who were named Felipe. The three Felipes that also ruled over Portugal were known...
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  • O
    Ò̩ ò̩ Ǭ ǭ O͍ o͍ Ꝍ ꝍ : O with loop was used in some medieval Nordic orthographies Ꟁ ꟁ : Old Polish O ⱺ : Small o with low ring inside is used in the Swedish...
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  • The Orthographic Reform of 1911 was an initiative to standardize and simplify the writing of the Portuguese language in Portugal in 1911. Having the force...
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  • I
    thus "avoiding misreading handwritten manuscripts." In many languages' orthographies, ⟨i⟩ is used to represent the sound /i/ or, more rarely, /ɪ/. In the...
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  • A Portuguese name, or Lusophone name – a personal name in the Portuguese language – is typically composed of one or two personal names, the mother's family...
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    Galician language (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    slightly-modified or actual Portuguese orthography, which has its roots in medieval Galician-Portuguese poetry as later adapted by the Portuguese Chancellery. According...
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    with Portuguese navigators, the first European people to visit the Japanese islands. The earliest Japanese romanization system was based on Portuguese orthography...
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  • In Portuguese orthography, there is no diacritic used for Ximenes. As the modern name Ximenes has an -es suffix, it is almost certainly of Portuguese, Galician...
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  • languages Spelling reforms of Portuguese Museum of the Portuguese Language Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples...
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  • Since Portuguese is a pluricentric language, and differences between European Portuguese (EP), Brazilian Portuguese (BP), and Angolan Portuguese (AP) can...
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    French and Portuguese words such as façade and ação. However, the sound represented by the symbol ç in French and Portuguese orthography is not a voiceless...
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  • see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A phonemic orthography is an orthography (system for writing a language) in which the graphemes (written...
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  • Portuguese grammar Portuguese personal pronouns Portuguese verb conjugation Portuguese orthography Portuguese phonology List of Portuguese contracted prepositions [pt]...
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  • Vietnamese since this writing system, created by Portuguese missionaries, is based on Portuguese orthography, not French. Between 1907 and 1908, the short-lived...
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  • linguists and Portuguese missionaries. Most of the existing texts were of a religious nature and written in some modification of Portuguese orthography. In general...
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  • and kana. The earliest Japanese romanization system was based on Portuguese orthography. It was developed around 1548 by a Japanese Catholic named Anjirō...
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  • Antonio (category Pages with Portuguese IPA)
    Toñito, and Tõnis. The Portuguese equivalent is António (Portuguese orthography) or Antônio (Brazilian Portuguese). In old Portuguese the form Antão was also...
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  • intervocalic L is characteristic of Galician-Portuguese. The surname Saa (Sá in modern Portuguese orthography) is also common. Notable people with the surname...
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    Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (category Portuguese comics artists)
    January 1905; spelled Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro in older Portuguese orthography) was a Portuguese artist known for his illustration, caricatures, sculpture...
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