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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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	Wikinfo \| Portuguese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Portuguese is also spoken in Goa in India, but by an increasingly small minority, while in Malacca in Malaysia, there is a Portuguese creole known as Cristao (Papiá Kristang) still spoken by some of the Eurasian population.
		The Portuguese language, that has as origin in the Vulgar Latin, developed in the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula (current Portugal and region of Galiza, or Galicia) enclosed in the Roman province of Lusitania.
		Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese and its Creoules are spoken by 55% of the population)
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	Portuguese - Language Directory
		The Portuguese language was spread worldwide in the 15th and 16th centuries as Portugal created the first and the longest lived modern-world colonial and commercial empire (1415 - 1975), spanning from Brazil in the Americas to Macau in China and Japan.
		Portuguese is also an official language of the European Union, Mercosul and the African Union (bwing one of the working languages) and a one of the official languages of other organizations.
		The differences between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese varieties are in vocabulary, pronunciation and syntax, especially in popular varieties, while between upper-class Brazilians these differences ease largely.
	language-directory.50webs.com /languages/portuguese.htm (649 words)

	differences - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about differences
		For example, in the sequence 1, 4, 9, 16, 25..., the differences are 3, 5, 7, 9...
		The patterns of differences are used to analyse sequences.
		Differences of degree there were, of course; but no one more delicately and definitely knew those differences than did Jerry himself.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /differences (234 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)

	Why does Brazilian and European Portuguese sound so different? \| Antimoon Forum
		Portuguese people do not pronounce unstressed vowels normally (they pronounce it as shwa's in slow speech, but again, they rarely speak slowly...) so this makes it very difficult for us Brazilians to understand it...
		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)

	Actresses Different (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Katharine Hepburn once said that there is a difference between being an actor Actresses Different and being a star; she wanted to be a star.
		French actress Emmanuelle Laborit begins her autobiography with a simple explanation of the difference sign language made in her life: "With the help of sign language I understood that yesterday was behind me Actresses Different and tomorrow was in front of me".
		She learned this at age seven, Actresses Different and soon after, she realized that being deaf could be a positive part of her identity.
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	European Portuguese vs. Brazilian Portuguese • J. Roque Dias
		Portuguese is in 6th place among the ten most-spoken languages in the world.
		With the exception of Brazil, apart from local colloquialisms and "street lingo", in ALL Portuguese-speaking countries and territories the linguistic variety spoken and used by the population and in official business is the EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE.
		A former Professor of Portuguese and Linguistics at two major universities in Brazil, she taught for nearly a decade at University of California-Berkeley and, since 1996, has been the Director of the Portuguese Language Program at Stanford University.
	www.jrdias.com /jrd-portugal-brasil.htm (1039 words)

	Brazilian Portuguese Translation - Translate Brazilian Portuguese Language Translator
		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.
		The Brazilian formal written standard, which is defined by law and by international agreements with other Portuguese-speaking countries, is very similar to the European one; but there are nevertheless many differences in spelling, lexicon, and grammar.
		Brazilian and European writers also have markedly different preferences when choosing between supposedly equivalent words or constructs.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/brazilianportuguese.shtml (389 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)

	Brazilian Portuguese Grammar
		There are very important differences between BP and EP in the usage of pronouns.
		These are some of the most important differences between BP and EP, and have been very seriously studied.
		There are many other differences between both varieties, like the loss of third person forms in imperatives and the reduced usage of inflected infinitives in BP, which deserve a larger and more detailed study.
	www.orbilat.com /Languages/Portuguese-Brazilian/Brazilian-Grammar.htm (933 words)

	Different (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		See live article Potential difference In the physical sciences, potential difference is the difference of a conserved quantity between two points.
		See live article American and British English differences This article outlines the differences between American English, the form of the English language spoken in the United States, and British English, which for the purposes of this article is assumed to be the form of English spoken in southeast England, used...
		See live article Differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese varieties Differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese Europe an and Brazilian Portuguese present some differences, perhaps not more or less than those existing among the several varieties of English, Spanish or French.
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	Different (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		To be sure, these differences are often heightened by distinctions in learning, cultural tradition, Different and social expectation, but underpinning them all is a fundamental difference that derives from biology.
		The oft-noticed "gender gap" derives, in turn, from this "gamete gap." In Gender Gap, Barash Different and Lipton (husband Different and wife, professor Different and physician, biologist Different and psychiatrist) explain the evolutionary aspects of male-female differences.
		Barash Different and Lipton apply this approach to male-female differences in sexual inclinations, propensities for violence, parenting styles, Different and childhood experiences.
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	Duct Tape Medicine : Adhesives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A Brazilian arriving in Portugal and seeing the word "Drogaria" would expect to be able to buy medicine, Instead, this store sells brooms, buckets, and assorted household items.
		He may laugh at the use of the word "bicha" to mean line or queue, as in Brazil, it is a term for a male homosexual.
		Another Brazilian asking for "durex", expecting duct tape, would be surprised to receive a box of condoms.
	www.barnesdyer.com /299-Duct-Tape-Medicine.html (833 words)

	Why does Brazilian and European Portuguese sound so different? (page 3) \| Antimoon Forum
		The differences lie mainly on local slang and vocabulary used to refer to some common objects.
		No, differences is Spanish are not that big at all, and speakers understand each other perfectly.
		The standard/neutral Brazilian accent is that of Brazil's capital: Brasília.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/6805-3.htm (960 words)

	Naming Dictionary : Encyclopedias and Dictionaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		English Phrases Dictionary includes variety of phrases, collocations naming dictionary and common idioms.
		For each word article in addition to the headword meaning are provided synonyms, cross references, naming dictionary and similar words.
		and European Portuguese varieties Differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese Europe an and Brazilian Portuguese present some differences, perhaps not more or less than those existing among the several varieties of English, Spanish or French.
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