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Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Rōmaji ローマ字 Romanization of Japanese refers to the romanization of Japanese words, which are written in kanji and kana in Japan. Japanese may be romanized for street signs for foreigners, transcription of names, ...

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The Renaissance produced a pleiad of distinguished poets, historians, critics, antiquaries, theologians, and moralists which made the sixteenth century a golden age. Portuguese literature - Lyric and epic poetry. Sá de Miranda introduced Italian forms of verse and raised the tone of poetry. He was followed by Antônio Ferreira, a superior stylist, by Diogo Bernardes, and Andrade Caminha, but the Quinhentistas tended to lose spontaneity in their imitation of classical models, though the verse of Fre ...

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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

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Mendes (Μένδης), the Greek name of ancient Djedet (modern تل الربع Tall al-Rubˁ), is a city in the eastern Nile delta (30°58′N 31°30′E). It was the capital of the 16th Lower Egyptian nome, and during the 29th dynasty, it was the capital of ancient Egypt. It lays on the Mendesian branch of the Nile (now silted up), about 35 kilometres east of Mansura. The site is today the largest surviving tell in the Nile delta, and consists of both Tell al-Rubˁ (the site of the main temple enclosure) and Tell Tima ...

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Portuguese literature - Pastoral Poetry. Portuguese pastoral poetry is more natural and sincere than that of the other nations because Ribeiro, the founder of the bucolic school, sought inspiration in the national serranilhas, but his eclogues, despite their feeling and rhythmic harmony, are surpassed by the "Crisfal" of Christovão Falcão. These and the eclogues and sententious "Cartas" of Sá de Miranda are written in versos de arte mayor, and the popular medida velha (as the national metre was a ...

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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

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Portuguese influenced several languages, such as Japanese, Swahili or Malay, (including Bahasa Indonesia). Some languages are deeply influenced by the Portuguese language, but are not classified as Creoles. Tetum is heavily influenced by Portuguese, but it is not a Portuguese Creole. Tetum is a co-official language of East Timor with Portuguese. In Brazil, especially in the North (former vice-kingdom of Grão-Pará) but as far down as São Paulo and in the then vice-kingdom of Brazil, Portuguese was used almost exclusively by g ...

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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

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In Asia, there are three groups of Portuguese-Creoles: The "Portuguese-Indian Creoles" that are spoken in India and Sri Lanka. The "Portuguese-Malay Creoles" spoken in Malaysia, Singapore and formerly in Indonesia and East Timor. And, the "Portuguese-Chinese Creole", known as Macaista, spoken in Macao and formely in Hong-Kong. Portuguese Creole - Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole. The interaction of the Portuguese and the Sri Lankans led to the creation of a Creole language, the Sri Lanka Portuguese Creole, whic ...

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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

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A tiny population in northern Brazil speaks a French Creole, the Lanc-Patuá (from French Langue Patois), it has numerous influences from the Portuguese language. Sranang Tongo is a creole spoken in Suriname. It has a number of Portuguese loanwords, which makes it the a Portuguese-influenced creole in Suriname. But it is originally an English creole. Like Saramacano, it has also borrowed Dutch and English words. ...

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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

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Many words of Brazilian origin (also used in other Portuguese-language countries) have also entered into English: samba, bossa nova, cruzeiro, milreis, capoeira. While originally Angolan, the words "capoeira" and "samba" only became famous worldwide because of their popularity in Brazil. Brazilian Portuguese has borrowed words from many sources. From South America, words deriving from the Tupi-Guaraní family of languages are particularly prevalent in place names (Itaquaquecetuba, Pindamonhangaba, Caruaru) and names of flora and fauna (abacaxi "pineapple", mandioca, "m ...

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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

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The "Portuguese-American Creoles" spoken in Antilles and Suriname have been influenced by other languages — Dutch, Spanish, and English — respectively. Yet there is still a strong Portuguese influence. In the past, there were possibly Portuguese Creoles in Brazil; there is a Portuguese dialect in Helvécia, South of Bahia that presents signs of an earlier decreolization. Some say that vernacular Brazilian Portuguese (not the official and standard Brazilian Portuguese) s ...

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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

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Portuguese Creole - Africa. There were possibly many creoles in Africa, especially in Congo region and former Portuguese feitorias in the Golf of Guinea. The Upper Guinea Creole was spoken in all the upper Guinea, today it is only spoken in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and The Gambia. Portuguese Creole - Brazil. There were Portuguese Creoles in Brazil's Quilombos brought from Africa, but the Portuguese acculturation was so effective that they are all extinct. Also, the large level of ...

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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

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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, ...

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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

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In many ways, compared to Brazilian Portuguese, Angolan Portuguese is very similar. For example, in the word corresponding to "boy", the word in standard Portuguese is "menino". However, in Brazil and Angola, it is pronounced [mininu] or [meninu], while in standard European Portuguese it is known as [mɨninu] (the non-standard pronunciation can be heard in some areas of Portugal). Due to the fact that the Standard Portuguese is the preferred pronunciation, it has become a transitional dialect somewhat midway between the European and the Braz ...

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Angolan Portuguese, Angolan Portuguese - History, Angolan Portuguese - Phonology, Angolan Portuguese - Angolan Lexicon, Angolan Portuguese - Loan words, Angolan Portuguese - Dialects

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Spoken Brazilian usage differs considerably from European usage in many aspects. The following are a few of these differences: Brazilian Portuguese - The use of the gerund for describing continuous action. BP has carried on the gerund form from classical Portuguese. The norm in EP was changed, with the extinction of the gerund, favouring the infinitive, in most dialects. Whereas in BP it is common for one to say, estou falando (I'm speaking), estou escrevendo (I'm writing), vou rindo ( ...

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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

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Although most of the lexicon of Brazilian Portuguese is the same as that of Portugal, there are differences, particularly in terminology referring to objects which have come into existence since the political separation of the two countries in the 19th century. Nevertheless, a large amount of European Portuguese vocabulary exists in Brazilian Portuguese, yet is often not the word most commonly used. ...

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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

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The earliest Portuguese creole in the region probably arose in the 16th century in Malacca, Malaysia, as well as in the Moluccas. After the takeover of those places by the Dutch in the 17th century, many creole-speaking slaves were taken to other places in Indonesia and South Africa, leading to several creoles that survived until recent times: Kristang (Cristão): in Malacca (Malaysia) and Singapore. Mardijker (extinct in 19th century): by the Mardijker people of Batavia (Jacarta). Papiá Tugu (extinct in 1978) ...

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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

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Portuguese literature - Verse. It has been argued (by great early scholars such as Henry Roseman Lang and Carolina Michaelis) that an indigenous popular poetry existed before the beginning of the written record, although the first datable poems (a handful between around 1200 and 1225) show influences from Provence. These poems were composed in a language called Galician-Portuguese (or Galego-Portuguese), the common ancestor of modern Galician and Portuguese. The first known venues of poetic activity were aristocr ...

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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

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Portuguese literature - Prose. A new epoch in literature dates from the Revolution of 1383-1385. King John I wrote a book of the chase, his sons, King Duarte and D. Pedro, composed moral treatises, and an anonymous scribe told with charming naïveté the story of the heroic Nuno Alvares Pereira in the Chronica do Condestavel. The line of the chroniclers which is one of the boasts of Portuguese literature began with Fernão Lopes, who compiled the chronicles of the reigns of Kings Pedro I, Fernando, and Joh ...

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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

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The numerous Portuguese outposts in India and Sri Lanka gave rise to many Portuguese-based creole languages, of which only a few have survived to the present. The largest group were the Norteiro languages, spoken by the Norteiro people, the Christian Indo-Portuguese in the North Konkan. Those communities were centered around Baçaim, modern Vasai, which was then called , the "Northern Court of Portuguese India"(in opposition to the "Southern Court" at Goa). The creole languages spoken in Baçaim, Salsete, Thana, Chevai, Mahim, Tecelaria, Dad ...

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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

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Portuguese has contributed to many creole languages of the Americas, although its similarity with Spanish makes it difficult to separate the influence of the two languages. Most surviving creoles contain also influences from Dutch, English, French, and various African languages. They are: Papiamento: spoken in Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao; Spanish/Portuguese (60%), Dutch (25%), African and Arawak (15%). Saramaccan: spoken in Suriname; Portuguese, English, African (20%), ... Cafundó: Spoken ...

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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

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The oldest Portuguese-based creole are the so-called Crioulos of Upper Guinea, born around the Portuguese settlemens along the northwest coast of Africa. Originally spoken on a wider area, they are presently reduced to the following branches: Upper Guinea Crioulo (Kriol): lingua franca of Guinea-Bissau, also spoken in Casamance, Senegal and in Gambia. Capeverdean Crioulo (Kriolu, Criol): a dialect continuum spoken on the islands of ...

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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

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