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  Angolan Portuguese -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Angolan Portuguese is a variant of the (additional info and facts about Portuguese language) Portuguese language used mostly in (A republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975 and was the scene of civil war until 1990) Angola.
Portuguese was inherited from Portuguese colonization of Africa.
Angolan Portuguese has had a large influence on the vernacular of the younger population in Portugal, contributing significant amounts of lexicon.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/angolan_portuguese.htm   (747 words)

  
 Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese is a variant of the Portuguese language used mostly in Brazil.
Portuguese was inherited due to the Portuguese colonization of the Americas.
In standard European Portuguese, the pronoun "tu" is used as the most intimate form, between friends, brothers and sisters or between workmates of an equal or nearly equal age.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brazilian_portuguese.html   (2369 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Galician language
Portuguese-Galician (in Portuguese and Galician is known as Galaico-Português) was a Iberian Romance language, spoken in the Middle Ages, in the western area of the Iberian Peninsula.
Many linguists consider Modern Galician and Portuguese as dialects or varieties of the same language; the question of which variety is the true form is a matter of debate.
After the separation of Portuguese and Galician, Galician was considered provincial and was not widely used for literary or academic purposes until its renaissance in the mid- 1800s.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Galician-language   (3195 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Angola - Precolonial Angola And The Arrival Of The Portuguese | Angolan Information Resource
AllRefer.com - Angola - Precolonial Angola And The Arrival Of The Portuguese
PRECOLONIAL ANGOLA AND THE ARRIVAL OF THE PORTUGUESE
The Portuguese, in fact, were more concerned with recording the past of their own people in Angola than with the history of the indigenous populations.
reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/angola/angola13.html   (762 words)

  
 Read about Portuguese language at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Portuguese language and learn about Portuguese ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Portuguese sometimes appears closer to French and Catalan than Spanish does, due to the occurrence of nasalization in both French and Portuguese, and due to certain sound changes (for example, diphthongization of low-mid stressed vowels, aspiration of /f/, devoicing of sibilants, and change of intervocalic [ʎ] to [ʒ]) that set off Spanish from the others.
Portuguese is spoken by about 187 million people in South America, 16 million Africans, 12 million Europeans, 2 million in North America and 0.25 million in Asia.
The table "Portuguese language countries and territories" includes countries where the Portuguese language is official and while not official, where it is spoken by more than 0,5% of the population.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Portuguese_language   (3673 words)

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