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	Portuguese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Portuguese is often nicknamed The language of Camões, after the author of the Portuguese national epic The Lusiads; The last flower of Latium (Olavo Bilac); and The sweet language by Cervantes.
		Portuguese is also an official language of the European Union, Mercosul and the African Union (one of the working languages) and one of the official languages of other organizations.
		Portuguese is written with 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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	[ information-center.be \| Portuguese_dialects Resources ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The southern and central dialects are broadly characterized by preserving the distinction between /b/ and /v/, and by the tendency to monophthongize ei and ou to [e] and [o].
		In the Portuguese town of Barrancos (in the border between Extremadura, Andalusia and Portugal), a dialect of Portuguese heavily influenced by Extremaduran is spoken, known as barranquenho.
		In the Caipira dialect, and in GoiÃ¡s and Minas Gerais, /É¾/ is pronounced [É¹].
	information-center.be /Portuguese_dialects.html (1318 words)

	User talk:Portcult - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Your article title Brazilian and Portuguese varieties is a little obscure.
		Dialects is not used in modern linguistics for this situaton.
		I've inserted some comments in Talk:Galician and Talk:Differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese varieties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/User_talk:Portcult (638 words)

	Brazilian Portuguese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Brazilian Portuguese is a collective name for the varieties of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 180 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple million Brazilian immigrants and temporary workers in other countries, mainly in Canada, United States, Portugal, Paraguay and Japan.
		Portuguese in Brazil is a legacy of Portuguese colonization of the Americas.
		For a time Portuguese coexisted with the Lingua Geral, a lingua franca based on Amerindian languages that was used by the Jesuit missionaries; as well as with various African languages spoken by the hundreds of thousands of slaves brought to the country between the 17th to 19th centuries.
	www.piedmontcaus.com /info/Brazilian_Portuguese (4616 words)

	Portuguese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Portuguese developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from the spoken Latin language brought there by Roman soldiers and colonist starting in the 3rd century BC The language began to differentiate itself other Romance languages after the fall of Roman Empire and the barbarian invasions in 5th century.
		Portuguese Creoles are the mother tongue of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau 's population.
		Portuguese is also an official of the European Union Mercosul and the African Union (one of the working languages) and one of the official languages of other Except for the Asian territories (East Timor Macau) Portuguese is the sole official language each country.
	www.freeglossary.com /Portuguese_language (5081 words)

	Portuguese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Portuguese (''português'') is a Romance language predominantly spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and East Timor.
		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 Creoles are the mother tongue of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau's population.
	portuguese-language.ask.dyndns.dk (3901 words)

	Portuguese language and dialects in the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Portuguese is the eighth most spoken language in the world (third among the Western European languages, after English and Spanish/Castilian) and is the official language of seven countries: Angola (10.3 million inhabitants), Brazil (151 million), Cabo Verde (346,000), Guinea-Bissau (1 million), Mozambique (15.3 million), Portugal (9.9 million), and São Tomé and Príncipe islands (126,000).
		The dialects spoken in the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira represent an extension of the mainland Portuguese dialects.
		Portuguese was largely used in the 16th and 17th centuries in the ports of India and South East Asia.
	www.alsintl.com /languages/portuguese2.htm (592 words)

	Phonology of the Portuguese language in Brazil
		The Portuguese language became the official language of the Portuguese Empire, which, by the year 1600, included large territorial areas in South America and Africa.
		Due to historical and linguistic factors, the language spoken in the portuguese territories in South America (Brazil) differentiated from the European Portuguese, in all linguistic aspects: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, etc., to the point of some linguists saying that Brazilians are already speaking another language.
		In Rio de Janeiro and in some other zones of Brazilian coast, the EP pronunciation may be found; this is probably due to the relusitanisation occurred at 1808, with the coming of the Portuguese Royal Family.
	www.orbilat.com /Languages/Portuguese-Brazilian/Brazilian-Phonology.htm (1042 words)

	Why does Brazilian and European Portuguese sound so different? \| Antimoon Forum
		The strong "sh" sound of Lusitanian Portuguese is what causes it to sound "Russian" at times (thus the non-Romance characteristic of which you speak) and the "dj" and "tch" sounds in the Brazilian accent are unmistakable.
		Portuguese tv stations use Lisboan Portuguese, which is along with Southern Portuguese and Island Portuguese accents, one of the most difficult to understand.
		There is a portuguese actor in an brazilian soap opera that is being aired in Brazil, but he was ''foreced'' to learn the Brazilian Portuguese.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/6805.htm (1177 words)

	Brazilian Portuguese is a diglossic language (page 2) \| Antimoon Forum
		Brazilian Portuguese has a very soft pronunciation, the native Indians, who the Portuguese enslaved, could not pronounce the letter “r” to begin with, and besides were very soft spoken, and so over five centuries the spoken language became gradually softer.
		A Brazilian Portuguese speaker easily understands Spanish be it the Italianate language spoken in Argentina or the more purer one spoken in the Andean regions of Colombia, but it does not work the other way around, my children had to communicate with their cousins in English and so did my wife.
		Almost as equal as the Portuguese influence in Brazil is the Negro whose culture permeates all levels of society, they were brought from Africa by the millions to work on sugar plantations in the mid part of the country, and many sections there are mostly fl or mulatto.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/6479-2.htm (3829 words)

	The Portuguese Language
		Portuguese is the eighth most spoken language and the third most spoken European language in the world (after English and Spanish) and, together with Spanish, French, Italian and Romanian, comprise the five modern Romance languages.
		Between the 14th and 16th centuries, as Portugal established overseas colonies, the Portuguese language extended to Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
		With different spelling, pronouns and idiomatic expressions, some believe that the difference between Brazilian and Luso, Continental or European (whichever you prefer to call it) Portuguese may be in excess of 25%.
	www.deltatranslator.com /port_lang.htm (2289 words)

	Portuguese Dialects
		Portuguese is a very rich language in terms of dialects, each with its particularity.
		Between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese, there are differences in vocabulary, pronunciation and syntax, especially in popular varieties, while between educated Brazilians and Portuguese these differences are reduced.
		The most exotic Portuguese dialect is vernacular São Tomean Portuguese, because of the interaction with local Portuguese Creoles, but even with this one there are no difficulties when talking to another person from another country.
	www.portugueselanguage.net /portuguese/dialects.asp (487 words)

	Differences between the two varieties of Portuguese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Not everyone is aware of the fact that the differences between Brazilian and Continental Portuguese far exceed those existing among the several varieties of English, Spanish or French.
		The biggest factor determining why a Brazilian cannot understand a Continental Portuguese speaker is in the pronunciation (phonetics), especially in the near suppression (unstressing) of the final vowel [i], written e.
		There are also differences between the speech of the north and that of the south, as there are local differences.
	www.portcult.com /10.LANG7_differences_between_BP_and_EP.htm (972 words)

	The Ultimate Brazilian Portuguese Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The most important reason why Brazilians can have some difficulty understanding European Portuguese speakers is the pronunciation (phonetics), especially because of the close central unrounded vowel (a sound that does not exist in BP and is there replaced by or [e]).
		The standard European Portuguese accent for these words are [kẽtɨ] (hot) and[sɨtẽbɾu] (September), respectively.
		Another pronunciation that Brazilians are not prepared for is the [ʃi] sound in careless spoken Lisbon Portuguese for written "sc" (piscina--[pɨʃinɐ].
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Brazilian_Portuguese (2931 words)

	Brazzil - Brazil 24/7 :: View topic - European and Brazilian Portuguese
		European Portuguese has a tendency to use more words of Spanish (tejadilho) and French origin (chaufage, estore), although this is not a rule.
		The most important reason why Brazilians have difficulty understanding European Portuguese speakers is the pronunciation (phonetics), especially in the near suppression (unstressing) of the final vowel [i], written e.
		It is used between parents and children, between grandparents or uncles and aunts and grandchildren and nieces and nephews, between brothers and sisters or friends, between husband and wife, between workmates of an equal age or nearly equal.
	www.brazzilbrief.com /viewtopic.php?t=3785 (4130 words)

	Overview of the Portuguese Language to Help You Learn Portuguese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In medieval times, there were two main dialects of Portuguese: Galician-Portuguese (which was spoken in the Northwestern region of the Iberian Peninsula) and Luso-Mozarabic (which was spoken in the region under Muslim control between the Mondego and Tagus Rivers).
		Many of the differences can be attributed to the influence of the languages of the indigenous populations of Brazil and to the absorbtion of African words brought over by slaves.
		Moreover, while Continental Portuguese was heavily influenced by the French language during the 18th century, Brazilian Portuguese was not affected by those changes.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/brazilian/overview.htm (900 words)

	Differencing - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Differencing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Also, those elements of one set that are not elements of another.
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		Differences in official languages in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Differencing (94 words)

	Brasilian language and culture
		FROM WIKIPEDIA Brazilian Portuguese is a form of the Portuguese language used mostly in Brazil.
		The principal objective of the Centro is: to coordinate the activities in Holland in favour of the.
		Brazilian Portuguese Language Teacher - a professional teacher and translator of the Portuguese language, Brazilian or native Portuguese.
	www.lonweb.org /link-brasilian.htm (905 words)

	InfoHub - difference between the portuguese spoken in Portugal and Brazil? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Yet, the greatest difference is between the Spanish languages spoken in Spain on the one hand and the Spanish spoken in Latin America on the other hand...
		In the case of Portuguese, the differences would be mostly lexical, in the pronunciation and entonation.
		One important difference in the grammar is the use of Tu and Vós (second person pronoun nominative, respectively singular and plural).
	www.infohub.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6037 (1220 words)

	Brazilian Portuguese - Eduseek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Brazilian Portuguese - An introduction to Brazilian Portuguese, analysing vocabulary, pronunciation and dialects.
		European vs. Brazilian Portuguese - A small glossary of words used mainly in Brazilian Portuguese.
		Sonia-Portuguesetuguese: Differences Between Brazilian and Europ - A brief description of the differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese.
	www.eduseek.com /static/navigate3143.html (100 words)

	Portuguese language:
		Portuguese for example has the word fresta, which is a cognate of French fenêtre or Italian finestra, but now means "slit" as opposed to "window",.
		Likewise, Portuguese also has the word cear, a cognate of Italian cenare and Spanish cenar, but uses it in the sense of "to have a late supper", while the most frequent word meaning "to dine" is actually jantar, due to semantic changes in the 19th Century.
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	Brazilian Regional Dialects
		Because there is a lack of scientific data describing the differences between various regional dialects spoken in Brazil, they cannot be classified in the same manner as the dialects of European Portuguese.
		There is a proposal to classify Brazilian Portuguese dialects along pronunciation lines, a method similar to the one used to classify European Portuguese.
		Using this method, it is possible to differentiate between the two major Brazilian dialects as well as their respective sub-dialects:
	www.deltatranslator.com /delta/brazil_dialects.htm (155 words)

	Portuguese Culture Web
		No longer Camões Portuguese: Brazilian, European, and African Portuguese differences
		The Misarela Bridge in northern Portugal and its fascinating legend
		English as she is spoke: a guide to Conversation in Portuguese
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