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| | History of the Portuguese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Strabo, a 1st-century Greek geographer, comments in one book of his Geographia: "they have adopted the Roman customs, and they no longer remember their own language." The language was spread by arriving Roman soldiers, settlers and merchants, who raised Roman cities mostly near previous civilizations\' settlements. |
 | | The language continued to be popular in parts of Asia until the 19th century, despite the severe measures taken by the Dutch to abolish it in Ceylon and Indonesia. |
 | | Also, a considerable number of words of Portuguese origin are found in Tetum, the national language of East Timor, such as lee \'to read\' (from ler), aprende \'to learn\' (from aprender) and tenke \'to have to\' (from tem que). |
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