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	Portuguese Language
		Portuguese language is one of the Romance languages.
		Portuguese is modern descendant of Latin, and also owes its importance (as the second Romance language, after Spanish) largely to its position as the language of Brazil, where more than 150 million people speak it.
		• Insular (The dialects of Madeira and the Azores)
	www.justportugal.org /portugal/portuguese-language.asp (122 words)

	Portuguese dialects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 Goiás and Minas Gerais, /ɾ/ is pronounced [ɹ].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portuguese_dialects (1321 words)

	Portuguese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Portuguese is often nicknamed The language of Camões, after the author of the Portuguese national epic The Lusiadas; 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portuguese_language (4176 words)

	Portuguese - Language Information & Resources
		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/Portuguese.shtml (979 words)

	Portuguese language - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Portuguese (português) is a Romance language predominantly spoken in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea Bissau, Macau (China), Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe.
		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.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Portuguese_language (4524 words)

	Dialect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Varieties of language such as dialects, idiolects and sociolects can be distinguished not only by their vocabulary and grammar, but also by differences in phonology (including prosody).
		An opposite example is the case of the Chinese language whose variations are often considered dialects and not languages despite their mutual unintelligibility because they share a common literary standard and common body of literature.
		A dialect continuum is a network of dialects in which geographically adjacent dialects are mutually comprehensible, but with comprehensibility steadily decreasing as distance between the dialects increases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dialect (1942 words)

	Portuguese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Portuguese (''português'') is a Romance language predominantly spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and East Timor.
		Portuguese is nicknamed A língua de Camões ("The language of Camões", after Luís de Camões, the author of The Lusiad); A última flor do Lácio ("The last flower of Latium") or The sweet language (by Cervantes).
		Portuguese language speakers are known as Lusitanic or Lusophones (after the Roman name for the province of Lusitania).
	portuguese-language.iqnaut.net (3773 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 (513 words)

	Portuguese language Biography,info
		Portuguese for example has the word fresta, which is a cognate of French fenêtre or Italian finestra and so on, but now means "slit" as opposed to "window",.
		The name of the Portuguese town of Fátima, where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared, is originally an Arabic name, the name of Muhammad’s daughter.
		Many Romance languages possess a present perfect tense, but the Portuguese present perfect has a unique, iterative sense, denoting an action or a series of actions which have begun in the past and are expected to continue into the future.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Portuguese_language (4376 words)

	Articles - Dialect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich published the expression, "A shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot" ("אַ שפראַך איז אַ דיאַלעקט מיט אַן אַרמײ און פֿלאָט", "A language is a dialect with an army and navy"; in ´´Yivo-bleter´´ 25.1, 1945, p.
		A well-known example is the Afrikaans-Dutch-Frisian-German dialect continuum, a vast network of dialects with four recognized literary standards.
		A network of dialects similarly exists among the Eastern Slavic languages, among which Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian are recognized as three literary standards.
	www.westdome.com /articles/Dialect (1790 words)

	learn portuguese \| Free Language
		Portuguese is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Mozambique.
		Portuguese Creoles are, while not officially recognized, the standard language for communication in Cape Verde and part of Guinea-Bissau's population.
		The Portuguese spoken in Brazil is quite different from the Portuguese spoken in Portugal in that the Brazilians tend to be more liberal with their use of the language.
	freelanguage.org /learn-portuguese (2041 words)

	Portuguese Translation Service - English to Portuguese Translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		You probably don't speak Portuguese yourself, so there are a few questions you'll need to consider when choosing a translation company.
		Professional translators whose native language is English and speak fluent Portuguese perform our Portuguese to English translation.
		Standard Portuguese of Portugal is based on Southern or Estremenho dialect (Lisbon and Coimbra).
	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/portuguese_translation.shtml (491 words)

	Learn Portuguese online for free!
		The links on the left contain English to Portuguese translations as well as other useful information about the Portuguese language.
		After some translations into Portuguese, the phonetic pronunciation is given in parentheses.
		This can be helpful as a guide to correct pronunciation, but it is advisable to learn the different individual sounds that comprise each word or sentence.
	www.101languages.net /portuguese (98 words)

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	translationsoftware4u.com /portuguese/portuguese-translation-software.php (539 words)

	Portuguese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The following table includes standardized forms of Portuguese and most common pronunciation in most regions: Vowels
		Ending "r" on a word can be surpressed in some Brazilian and some African dialects.
		# Easier reading: Because "qu" can be read in two different ways in Portuguese: "kw" or "k", Brazil uses the diaeresis (called trema in Portuguese), instead of "cinquenta" they write "cinqüenta".
	portuguese-language.ask.dyndns.dk (3901 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Portuguese language
		Portuguese is the first language in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and the most widely used language in Mozambique.Portuguese is also one of the official languages of East Timor (with Tetum) and Macau (with Chinese).
		image:Loudspeaker.png Algarvio — Algarve (there is a particular small dialect in the western area)
		In many Brazilian, Angolan and São Tomean dialects it can be pronounced as ̃j̃.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Portuguese_language (4362 words)

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