Portuguese is the official language, and is spoken by the entire population. Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas, giving it a national culture distinct from its Spanish-speaking neighbors. Portuguese is the only official language of Brazil, and there are few regional variances. It is virtually the only language used in schools, newspapers, radio and TV, and for all b ...

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As the basis for the Lingua Geral, spoken throughout the country by both white and Indian settlers until the early XVIII century and still heard in isolated pockets until the early XX century, Tupi left a strong mark on the Portuguese language spoken in Brazil, being by far its most distinctive source of modification. Tupi has given Brazilian Portuguese: A few thousands of words (some of them hybrid or bastardised) for animals, plants, fruit and cultural entities. The English-like pronunciation of R in Southern s ...

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The Federative Republic of Brazil (in Portuguese, República Federativa do Brasil; pron. IPA /ʁe.'pu.bli.kɐ fe.de.ɾa.'tʃi.vɐ du bɾa.'ziw/) is the largest and most populous country in Latin America, and fifth largest in the world. Spanning a vast area between central South America and the Atlantic Ocean, it is the easternmost country of the Americas and it borders Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French de ...

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Brazil currently has 25 million people living in conditions of poverty [2] [3]. This is a critical issue. Poverty in Brazil can be seen in the large metropolitan areas (capitals) and in the "pockets of poverty" (upcountry regions with low rates of economic and social development). The Northeast has chronic problems as a result of its dry climate, with millions of people suffering hunger during the dry seasons. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has proposed a prog ...

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Demographics of Brazil - Ethnic groups. thumb|300px|Ethnic groups in Brazil Most of the population can be considered a single "Brazilian" ethnic group, with highly varied racial types and backgrounds, some broad regional trends, but without clear ethnic sub-divisions. The major source of this diversity has been the sources of immigration from Europe, Middle East and Asia. The only clearly separated minority ethnic groups in Brazil are the various non-assimilated indigenous tribes, comprising less than 1% o ...

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Demographics of Brazil - Ethnic groups. Most of the population can be considered a single "Brazilian" ethnic group, with highly varied racial types and backgrounds, some broad regional trends, but without clear ethnic sub-divisions. The major source of this diversity has been the sources of immigration from Europe, Middle East and Asia. The only clearly separated minority ethnic groups in Brazil are the various non-assimilated indigenous tribes, comprising less than 1% of the population, who live in officially de ...

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Demographics of Brazil - Population. 186,112,794 Note: Brazil took a count in August 2000, which reported a population of 169,799,170; that figure was about 3.3% lower than projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied underenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census; estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth ...

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Two writers that have published after the 1950s are without a doubt already inside the canon of brazilian literature. Clarice Lispector, whose existentialist novels and short stories are somewhat reminiscent of Virginia Woolf's writings, filled with stream-of-consciousness and epiphanies, and João Guimarães Rosa, whose experimental language has changed the face of brazilian literature forever. His novel Grande Sertão: Veredas has been compared to James Joy ...

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During the 19th century, German immigrants in Brazil settled mostly in rural areas, named colony (colônia in Portuguese). These colonies had been created by the Brazilian government, and the lands were distributed between the immigrants. They had to construct their own houses and cultive the land. The immigration started in 1824, when the first group of Germans arrived in Brazil to São Leopoldo, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil, after 4 months travelling. They were in total 39 people, being 33 Lutherans and 6 Catho ...

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Deutschbrasilianer (in German), teuto-brasileiro or germano-brasileiro (in Portuguese), or German-Brazilian (in English) basically is a person of German origin (i.e. of that language, one of its dialect, nationality, place of origin or ethnicity) who is native to southern Brazil (and to some extent also existent in some other regions of the country, like in the state of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, and others.) However, most German-Brazilians do live in the southernmost states of Brazil, na ...

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The poverty and political turmoils occurring in Northern Italy in the last quarter of the 19th century brought many immigrants to Brazil (as well as to other countries, such as Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and United States). A part of them settled in the colonies in Southern Brazil, however, the majority of them settled in Southeast Brazil (mainly in the state of São Paulo). After 1888, when the slavery was finally abolished by a decree of the Imperial government, the number of farm workers fell drastically in Brazil, due to the fact that all ...

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Most of Italian Brazilians today speak Portuguese. Italian (literary and vernacular) was widespread in Brazil until the mid-1960s. Some Italian Brazilians still speak Italian (Talian dialect) as first language in some areas of Rio Grande do Sul State. But the Italian language in Brazil is declined among young people. ...

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Most German-Brazilians speak only Portuguese nowadays. This is mainly due to the prohibition of German teaching in schools and the publication of German newspapers (together with Italian and Japanese) during World War II, when Brazil broke off relations with Germany (and also with the other Axis Powers Italy and Japan of Axis Powers). However, German is still spoken by over 600,000 Brazilians, as first or second language. Riograndenser Hunsrückisch is the Brazilian variety of the Hunsrückisch dialect (a European German dialect) that ...

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During the 19th century, German immigrants in Brazil settled mostly in rural areas, named colony (colônia in Portuguese). These colonies had been created by the Brazilian government, and the lands were distributed between the immigrants. They had to construct their own houses and cultive the land. The immigration started in 1824, when the first group of Germans arrived in Brazil to São Leopoldo, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil, after 4 months travelling. They were in total 39 people, being 33 Lutherans and 6 Catho ...

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In the early 20th century, very few rural areas of Southern Brazil were desert. Most of them had been settled by German, Italian and Polish immigrants during the 19th century. With this situation, most Germans who immigrated to Brazil during the 20th century settled in big towns, Although, many of them also settled in the old rural German colonies. The German immigration to Brazil had its largest numbers during the 1920s, after World War I. These Germans were mostly middle-class laborers from urban areas of Germany, different from the poor agriculturists tha ...

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Deutschbrasilianer (in German), teuto-brasileiro or germano-brasileiro (in Portuguese), or German-Brazilian (in English) basically is a person of German origin (i.e. of that language, one of its dialect, nationality, place of origin or ethnicity) who is native to southern Brazil (and to some extent also existent in some other regions of the country, like in the state of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, and others.) However, most German-Brazilians do live in the southernmost states of Brazil, na ...

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When Germanic immigrants first arrived in Brazil starting at the beginning of the 1800's they did not identify themselves so much as a unified German-Brazilian group. However, as time went on this common regional identity did emerge for many different geo-socio-political reasons. Germans immigrated from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Russia. Some of them came from Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. During World War II, the government of Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas initiated a strict program of forced cultural assimilation - Nacionalismo - ...

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Italian immigration to Brazil was quite strong, especially from 1880 to 1930 and concentrated to the states of São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais. The first Italian immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1870. The Brazilian government was stimulating European immigration, speacially after 1850, when the traffic of African slaves was abolished in Brazil and European immigrants were substituting the manpower of the slaves. Italians first settled in Southern Brazil, where colonies of immigra ...

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List of Portuguese language television channels - Portugal. RTP Internacional RTP África SIC Internacional SIC Notícias List of Portuguese language television channels - Brazil. Record International (Europe-Africa), see also Record (TV) Record International (Japan-Far East) NEW, see also, Record (TV) Record International (Oceania) coming soon< ...

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