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ARTICLES RELATED TO Portuguese language | | | |  Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese language - HistoryPortuguese developed in the Western Iberian Peninsula from Latin brought there by Roman soldiers and colonists starting in the 3rd century BC. The language began to diverge from other Romance languages after the fall of the Roman Empire and the barbarian invasions in the 5th century. It started to be used in written documents around the 9th century, and by the 15th century it had become a mature language with a rich literature.
Arriving on the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BC, the Romans brought with them the Roman people's language, Vulga ...
See also:Portuguese language, Portuguese language - History, Portuguese language - Derived languages, Portuguese language - Influence on other languages, Portuguese language - Classification and related languages, Portuguese language - Galician, Portuguese language - Spanish, Portuguese language - Ladino, Portuguese language - Mutual intelligibility, Portuguese language - Other romance languages, Portuguese language - Distinctive features, Portuguese language - Geographic distribution, Portuguese language - Dialects, Portuguese language - Sounds, Portuguese language - Consonants, Portuguese language - Vowels, Portuguese language - Lexical stress, Portuguese language - Prosody and tone, Portuguese language - Grammar, Portuguese language - General, Portuguese language - Verbs, Portuguese language - Nouns pronouns and adjectives, Portuguese language - Demonstratives, Portuguese language - Vocabulary, Portuguese language - Writing system, Portuguese language - Spelling reforms, Portuguese language - Examples, Portuguese language - Notes Read more here: » Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese language - History |
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Portuguese language - General.
Portuguese makes a clear distinction between the different word classes, that include verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, articles, conjunctions and interjections. There are also some other determiners and particles. Portuguese is a SVO language.
Portuguese language - Verbs.
As in most Romance languages, the Portuguese verb is usually inflected to agree with the subject's grammatical person (with three values, 1=I/us, ...
See also:Portuguese language, Portuguese language - History, Portuguese language - Derived languages, Portuguese language - Influence on other languages, Portuguese language - Classification and related languages, Portuguese language - Galician Spanish and Ladino, Portuguese language - Other romance languages, Portuguese language - Latin, Portuguese language - Geographic distribution, Portuguese language - Dialects, Portuguese language - Sounds, Portuguese language - Consonants, Portuguese language - Vowels, Portuguese language - Lexical stress, Portuguese language - Prosody and tone, Portuguese language - Grammar, Portuguese language - General, Portuguese language - Verbs, Portuguese language - Nouns pronouns and adjectives, Portuguese language - Demonstratives, Portuguese language - Vocabulary, Portuguese language - Writing system, Portuguese language - Spelling reforms, Portuguese language - Examples, Portuguese language - Notes Read more here: » Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese language - Grammar |
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| | | | 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 century BC. The language began to diverge from other Romance languages after the fall of the Roman Empire and the barbarian invasions in the 5th century. It started to be used in written documents around the 9th century, and by the 15th century it had become a mature language with a rich literature.
Arriving on the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BC, the Romans brought with them the Roman people's language, Vulga ...
See also:Portuguese language, Portuguese language - History, Portuguese language - Classification and related languages, Portuguese language - Geographic distribution, Portuguese language - Dialects, Portuguese language - Creole, Portuguese language - Sounds, Portuguese language - Consonants, Portuguese language - Vowels, Portuguese language - Prosody, Portuguese language - Grammar, Portuguese language - General, Portuguese language - Verbs, Portuguese language - Nouns pronouns and adjectives, Portuguese language - Demonstratives, Portuguese language - Vocabulary, Portuguese language - Writing system, Portuguese language - Spelling reforms, Portuguese language - Examples, Portuguese language - Notes Read more here: » Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese language - History |
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| | | | Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Angolan Portuguese - Angolan Lexicon Although most of the vocabulary is the same as in Portugal or Brazil, there are some differences. This is due to the influence of several African languages spoken in Angola. Each area has different lexicon, originated from the distinctive languages. In the capital city of Luanda a very standard Portuguese is spoken, and tribal culture and languages are practically non-existent. Still, there are several Kimbundu influences. This lexicon is not used in documents or in business, for example, as it is mostly seem as slang, but there are exceptio ...
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| | | | Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese Creole - Origins Portugal in the period of discoveries and colonization created a linguistic contact with native languages and people of the discovered lands and pidgins were formed. Until the 18th century, these Portuguese pidgins were used as a lingua franca in Asia and Africa.
Later, the Portuguese pidgins were expanded grammatically and lexically, as they became creole languages. Today, these languages are known as "Portuguese creoles". The Portuguese creoles or Portuguese-based creoles are the ones that have almost all lexical content bases on Portuguese, ...
See also:Portuguese Creole, Portuguese Creole - Origins, Portuguese Creole - Origin of the name, Portuguese Creole - Africa, Portuguese Creole - Americas, Portuguese Creole - India and Sri Lanka, Portuguese Creole - Malaysia and Indonesia, Portuguese Creole - China, Portuguese Creole - Notes Read more here: » Portuguese Creole: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese Creole - Origins |
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| | | | Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese literature - Third Classical Phase: NeoClassicism Affectation continued to mark the literature of the first half of the eighteenth century, but signs of a change gradually appeared and ended in that complete literary reformation known as the Romantic Movement. Distinguished men who fled abroad to escape the prevailing despotism did much for intellectual progress by encouragement and example. Verney criticized the obsolete educational methods and exposed the literary and scientific decadence in the "Verdadeiro Methodo de Educar", while the various Academies and Arcadias, wiser than their predecessors, wor ...
See also:Portuguese literature, Portuguese literature - The birth of a literary language, Portuguese literature - Verse, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Fifteenth century, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Poetry, Portuguese literature - Early sixteenth century, Portuguese literature - Pastoral Poetry, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - First classical phase: The Renaissance, Portuguese literature - Lyric and epic poetry, Portuguese literature - The classical plays, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Second Classical Phase: Baroque, Portuguese literature - Lyric Poetry, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Third Classical Phase: NeoClassicism, Portuguese literature - The Academies, Portuguese literature - The Arcadias, Portuguese literature - Brazilian Poetry, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - Romanticism and Realism, Portuguese literature - Poetry, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - The Novel, Portuguese literature - Other prose, Portuguese literature - Fine examples of Portuguese literature, Portuguese literature - Luís Vaz de Camões, Portuguese literature - Eça de Queirós, Portuguese literature - Fernando Pessoa Read more here: » Portuguese literature: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese literature - Third Classical Phase: NeoClassicism |
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| | | | Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Brazilian Portuguese - Phonology In many ways, compared to European Portuguese (EP), Brazilian Portuguese (BP) is conservative in its phonology. In some areas of Brazil, the speech is close to that of Portuguese as spoken in the 16th and 17th centuries. This also occurs in São Tomean Portuguese.
BP maintains unstressed vowels to a greater extent than EP. BP maintains the five vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, See also:Brazilian Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese - History, Brazilian Portuguese - Phonology, Brazilian Portuguese - Brazilian lexicon, Brazilian Portuguese - Spelling, Brazilian Portuguese - Grammar, Brazilian Portuguese - The use of the gerund for describing continuous action, Brazilian Portuguese - Use of tenses, Brazilian Portuguese - Use of reflexives, Brazilian Portuguese - Object pronouns, Brazilian Portuguese - Use of subject pronouns pronomes de tratamento, Brazilian Portuguese - The imperative, Brazilian Portuguese - Borrowings and loan words Read more here: » Brazilian Portuguese: Encyclopedia II - Brazilian Portuguese - Phonology |
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| | | | Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese Creole - Portuguese-African Creoles Spoken in Africa, the Guinean creoles are divided by those of High-Guinea, spoken in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Gambia. These creoles are the most ancient Portuguese creoles. There are also the creoles of Gulf of Guinea, spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea.
Portuguese Creole - Kriol.
The creole of Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, Upper Guinea creole, is often known as Kriol or "Kriulo" or even "Crioulo da Guiné." It originated from the Kriol that was spoken in the 16th century, ...
See also:Portuguese Creole, Portuguese Creole - Origins, Portuguese Creole - Portuguese-African Creoles, Portuguese Creole - Kriol, Portuguese Creole - Capeverdean Crioulo, Portuguese Creole - Angolar, Portuguese Creole - Annobonnese, Portuguese Creole - Forro, Portuguese Creole - Principense, Portuguese Creole - Portuguese-Asian Creoles, Portuguese Creole - Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole, Portuguese Creole - Diu Indo-Portuguese, Portuguese Creole - Língua da Casa, Portuguese Creole - Kristi, Portuguese Creole - Kristang, Portuguese Creole - Macanese, Portuguese Creole - Portuguese-American Creoles, Portuguese Creole - Papiamento, Portuguese Creole - Saramaccan Portuguese/English creole, Portuguese Creole - Portuguese anti-Creole, Portuguese Creole - Extinct Portuguese Creoles, Portuguese Creole - Africa, Portuguese Creole - Brazil, Portuguese Creole - East Timor, Portuguese Creole - India, Portuguese Creole - Indonesia, Portuguese Creole - Portuguese-influenced Creoles, Portuguese Creole - Portuguese-influenced indigenous languages, Portuguese Creole - Notes Read more here: » Portuguese Creole: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese Creole - Portuguese-African Creoles |
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| | | | Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Costa - Places There are places that have the name Costa (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish for coast):
Costa - Nation.
Costa Rica
Costa - In France.
Costa, a commune of the Haute-Corse département, on the island of Corsica
Costa - In Italy.
Costa de' Nobili, in the province of Pavia
Costa di Mezzate, in the province of Bergamo
Costa di Rovigo, in the province of Rovigo
Costa di Ser ...
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| | | | Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese literature - Second Classical Phase: Baroque The general inferiority of seventeenth-century literature to that of the preceding age has been blamed on the new royal absolutism, the Inquisition, the Index, and the exaggerated humanism of the Jesuits who directed higher education; nevertheless, had a man of genius appeared he would have overcome all obstacles. In fact letters shared in the national decline. The taint of Gongorism and Marinism attacked all the Seiscentistas, as may be seen in the "Fenix Renascida", and rhetoric conquered style. The Revolution of 1640 liberated Portugal, b ...
See also:Portuguese literature, Portuguese literature - The birth of a literary language, Portuguese literature - Verse, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Fifteenth century, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Poetry, Portuguese literature - Early sixteenth century, Portuguese literature - Pastoral Poetry, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - First classical phase: The Renaissance, Portuguese literature - Lyric and epic poetry, Portuguese literature - The classical plays, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Second Classical Phase: Baroque, Portuguese literature - Lyric Poetry, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Third Classical Phase: NeoClassicism, Portuguese literature - The Academies, Portuguese literature - The Arcadias, Portuguese literature - Brazilian Poetry, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - Romanticism and Realism, Portuguese literature - Poetry, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - The Novel, Portuguese literature - Other prose, Portuguese literature - Fine examples of Portuguese literature, Portuguese literature - Luís Vaz de Camões, Portuguese literature - Eça de Queirós, Portuguese literature - Fernando Pessoa Read more here: » Portuguese literature: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese literature - Second Classical Phase: Baroque |
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Portuguese literature - Luís Vaz de Camões.
To English speakers, the most famous writer in the Portuguese language is the poet Luís Vaz de Camões or Luís Vaz Camoens (1524 - June 10, 1580), author of the epic poem, the Lusiad. (In the Victorian era, he was both sufficiently admired and sufficiently obscure for Elizabeth Barrett Browning to disguise her work by entitling it Sonnets from the Portuguese, a reference to Camões).
The Portuguese national holiday, "Portugal's Day" or "Dia de Portugal, das C ...
See also:Portuguese literature, Portuguese literature - The birth of a literary language, Portuguese literature - Verse, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Fifteenth century, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Poetry, Portuguese literature - Early sixteenth century, Portuguese literature - Pastoral Poetry, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - First classical phase: The Renaissance, Portuguese literature - Lyric and epic poetry, Portuguese literature - The classical plays, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Second Classical Phase: Baroque, Portuguese literature - Lyric Poetry, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Third Classical Phase: NeoClassicism, Portuguese literature - The Academies, Portuguese literature - The Arcadias, Portuguese literature - Brazilian Poetry, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - Romanticism and Realism, Portuguese literature - Poetry, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - The Novel, Portuguese literature - Other prose, Portuguese literature - Fine examples of Portuguese literature, Portuguese literature - Luís Vaz de Camões, Portuguese literature - Eça de Queirós, Portuguese literature - Fernando Pessoa Read more here: » Portuguese literature: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese literature - Fine examples of Portuguese literature |
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Portuguese literature - Poetry.
The early nineteenth century witnessed a literary reformation which was commenced by Almeida Garrett who had become acquainted with the English and French Romanticism in exile and based his work on the national traditions. In the narrative poem "Camões" (1825) he broke with the established rules of composition and followed it with "Flores sem Fructo" and a collection of ardent love poems "Folhas Cahidas", while the clear elegant prose of this true artist is seen in a miscellany of ...
See also:Portuguese literature, Portuguese literature - The birth of a literary language, Portuguese literature - Verse, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Fifteenth century, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Poetry, Portuguese literature - Early sixteenth century, Portuguese literature - Pastoral Poetry, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - First classical phase: The Renaissance, Portuguese literature - Lyric and epic poetry, Portuguese literature - The classical plays, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Second Classical Phase: Baroque, Portuguese literature - Lyric Poetry, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Third Classical Phase: NeoClassicism, Portuguese literature - The Academies, Portuguese literature - The Arcadias, Portuguese literature - Brazilian Poetry, Portuguese literature - Prose, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - Romanticism and Realism, Portuguese literature - Poetry, Portuguese literature - Drama, Portuguese literature - The Novel, Portuguese literature - Other prose, Portuguese literature - Fine examples of Portuguese literature, Portuguese literature - Luís Vaz de Camões, Portuguese literature - Eça de Queirós, Portuguese literature - Fernando Pessoa Read more here: » Portuguese literature: Encyclopedia II - Portuguese literature - Romanticism and Realism |
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| | | | Portuguese language: Encyclopedia II - Brazilian Portuguese - History Portuguese in Brazil is a legacy of Portuguese colonization of the Americas. The first wave of Portuguese-speaking immigrants was settled in Brazil in the 16th Century, yet the language was not widely used then. By the end of the 18th century, it was already the national language. It gained words from Amerindian languages such as Lingua Geral. Many of those also reached Portugal, such as pipoca (popcorn) or abacaxi (pineapple). Some of these words entered the colony's Portuguese dialects in a very early ...
See also:Brazilian Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese - History, Brazilian Portuguese - Phonology, Brazilian Portuguese - Brazilian lexicon, Brazilian Portuguese - Spelling, Brazilian Portuguese - Grammar, Brazilian Portuguese - The use of the gerund for describing continuous action, Brazilian Portuguese - Use of tenses, Brazilian Portuguese - Use of reflexives, Brazilian Portuguese - Object pronouns, Brazilian Portuguese - Use of subject pronouns pronomes de tratamento, Brazilian Portuguese - The imperative, Brazilian Portuguese - Borrowings and loan words Read more here: » Brazilian Portuguese: Encyclopedia II - Brazilian Portuguese - History |
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| | | | Portuguese language: Encyclopedia - Vive Viva Vive, Viva and Vivat are interjections used in the Romance languages. Vive, in French, and Viva, in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, Vivat, in Romanian are subjunctive forms of the verb "to live". They literally mean, "may it live", and are usually translated to English as "long live". They are often used to salute a person or non-personal entity: "Vive le Québec libre" (from Charles de Gaulle's Vive le Québec libre speech in Montréal), or "Viva il Duce!", the rough equivalent in Fas ...
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