Instituto Camões - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Instituto Camões: Encyclopedia Ii - Instituto Camões - Language Centres
The Institute's Portuguese Language Centres (Centros de Língua Portuguesa or CLP) are centres which aim to promote the Portuguese langua...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Council: Encyclopedia - British Council
The British Council is a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom. Its Chair is L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alliance Française: Encyclopedia - Alliance Française
The Alliance Française is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to promote French language and culture outside France. Its primary ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Goethe-institut: Encyclopedia Ii - Goethe-institut - Exams
The institute has a series of exams for learners of German as a foreign language (Deutsch als Fremdsprache, DaF). These can be taken both...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Grammar
Portuguese language - General. Portuguese makes a clear distinction between the different word classes, that include verbs, nouns, pron...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - History
Portuguese developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin brought there by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd centur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - History
Portuguese developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin brought there by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd centur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Geographic Distribution
Portuguese is the first language in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and the most widely used language in Mozambiqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Sounds
As with French, Portuguese is often noted for its contrastive use of nasal vowels and the large number of diphthongs. European Portuguese...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Writing System
Portuguese is written using the Latin alphabet with 26 letters. Three of them (K, W and Y) are only used for non-Portuguese origin words,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Grammar
Portuguese language - General. Portuguese makes a clear distinction between the different word classes, that include verbs, nouns, pron...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Derived Languages
Starting with the 16th century, the extensive contacts between Portuguese travelers and settlers, African slaves, and local populations l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Influence On Other Languages
Portuguese also loaned words to many other languages, such as Japanese, Indonesian, Malay, Tetum, Swahili, as well as in several creole l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Writing System
Portuguese is written using the Latin alphabet with 26 letters. Three of them (K, W and Y) are only used for non-Portuguese origin words,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Vocabulary
Portuguese, both in morphology and syntax, represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of any foreign l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Classification And Related Languages
Portuguese is a member of the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. Its closest relatives are Galician, Ladino, and Spanis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Vocabulary
Almost 90% of the Portuguese vocabulary is derived from Latin; needless to say, with substantial phonological and morphological changes w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Geographic Distribution
Portuguese is the first language in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and the most widely used language in Mozambiqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Grammar
Portuguese language - General. Portuguese makes a clear distinction between the different word classes, that include verbs, nouns, pron...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Sounds
As with French, Portuguese is often noted for its contrastive use of nasal vowels and the large number of dipthongs. Most dialects, inclu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Geographic Distribution
Portuguese is the first language in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and São Tomé and Príncipe, and the most widely used language in Mozambiqu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Classification And Related Languages
Indo-European - Italic - Romance - Italo-Western - Western - Gallo-Iberian - Ibero-Romance - West-Iberian - Portuguese-Galician Portugues...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Vocabulary
The Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa, by Antônio Houaiss (1915 – 1999), son of Lebanese immigrants in Brazil and former Brazi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Writing System
Portuguese is written using the Latin alphabet with 26 letters. Three of them (K, W and Y) are only used for non-Portuguese origin words,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Classification And Related Languages
Portuguese is a member of the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. Its closest relatives are Galician, Ladino, and Spanis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Influence On Other Languages
Portuguese also loaned words to many other languages, such as Japanese, Indonesian, Malay, Tetum, Swahili, as well as in several creole l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Derived Languages
Starting with the 16th century, the extensive contacts between Portuguese travelers and settlers, African slaves, and local populations l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - Sounds
As with French, Portuguese is often noted for its contrastive use of nasal vowels and the large number of diphthongs. European Portuguese...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Portuguese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Portuguese Language - History
Portuguese developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin brought there by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd centur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Instituto Camões: Encyclopedia Ii - Instituto Camões - Cultural Centres
The Institute's Portuguese cultural centres (Centros culturais portugueses) are centres whose aim is the promotion of cultural relations ...   » Read the article