The word Tagalog was derived from tagá-ílog, from tagá- meaning "native of" and ílog meaning "river", thus, it means "resident beside the river." Since there are no surviving written samples of Tagalog before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, very little is known about the history of the language. However there is speculation among linguists that the ancestors of the Tagalogs originated, along with their Central Philippine cousins, fr ...

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Tagalog is a Central Philippine language within the Austronesian language family. It is closely related to the languages spoken in the Bicol and Visayas regions such as Bikol, Hiligaynon, Waray-Waray, and Cebuano. Languages that have made significant contributions to Tagalog are Spanish, Fukien Chinese, English, Malay, Sanskrit (via Malay), Arabic (via Malay/Spanish), and Northern Philippine languages ...

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Portuguese, both in morphology and syntax, represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of any foreign language. The sounds, grammatical forms, and syntactical types, with a few exceptions, are derived from Latin. And almost 90% of the vocabulary is still derived from the language of Rome. Some of the changes began during the Empire, others took place later. In the ...

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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, in terms like darwinismo ("Darwinism"). It uses ç and acute, grave, circumflex and tilde accents over vowels, as well as, in some forms and only in Brazil, diaeresis on a U as in lingüística (Linguistics, linguística is used in the rest of the Portuguese speaking nations). Portuguese language - Spelling reforms. As of 2005, Portug ...

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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 ...

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Starting with the 16th century, the extensive contacts between Portuguese travelers and settlers, African slaves, and local populations led to the appearance of many pidgin languages with varying amounts of Portuguese influence. These pidgins remained in use in parts of Asia and Africa untilthe 18th century. As these pidgins became the mother tongue of succeeding generations, they evolved into distinctive languages. Many of these Portuguese-based or Portuguese-influenced creole languages ...

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Portuguese also loaned words to many other languages, such as Japanese, Indonesian, Malay, Tetum, Swahili, as well as in several creole languages, such as Lanc-Patuá (spoken in northern Brazil) and Sranang Tongo (spoken in Suriname). Portuguese had a strong influence on the language spoken around Sikka in Flores Island, Indonesia. In nearby Larantuka, Portuguese is used for prayers in the Tuan Ma ritual. Portuguese also influenced the Tupi-Guarani-based Lingua G ...

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Portuguese is a member of the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. Its closest relatives are Galician, Ladino, and Spanish, in that order. Portuguese language - Galician. Galician orthography follows the Spanish model, but the spoken language is said to be closer to Portuguese, especially to its Medieval form. Indeed, the question of whether Portuguese and Galician are separate languages, or dialects of the same language, has been hotly debated for decades, and is loaded with political and cultur ...

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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 Macao S.A.R. of China (with Chinese). It is widely spoken, but not official, in Andorra, Luxembourg, Namibia and Paraguay. Portuguese Creoles are the mother tongue of Cape Verde and part of Guinea-Bissau's population. In Cape Verde most also speak standard Portuguese and have a native level language usage. Large Portug ...

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As with French, Portuguese is often noted for its contrastive use of nasal vowels and the large number of diphthongs. European Portuguese has 9 simple non-nasal vowel phonemes (one of which occurs only in unstressed syllables); Brazilian Portuguese has 7. Both dialects have 5 simple nasal vowel phonemes, and 10 oral and 4 nasal diphthongal phonemes. There are 19 consonant phonemes. European Portuguese differs from the dialects spoken in Brazil and the former Portuguese colonies by a marked velarization that affects vowels as well as c ...

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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. Verbs are divided into three conjugations, which can be identified by looking at the infinitive ending, one of "-ar", "-er" and "-ir". There is also "-o ...

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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 Western Roman Empire and the barbarian invasions in the 5th century, and started to be used in written documents around the 9th century. By the 15th century it had become a mature language with a rich literature. In all aspects — phonology, morphology, lexicon and syntax — Portuguese is essentia ...

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Starting with the 16th century, the extensive contacts between Portuguese travelers and settlers, African slaves, and local populations led to the appearance of many pidgin languages with varying amounts of Portuguese influence. These pidgins remained in use in parts of Asia and Africa untilthe 18th century. As these pidgins became the mother tongue of succeeding generations, they evolved into distinctive languages. Many of these Portuguese-based or Portuguese-influenced creole languages ...

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Portuguese also loaned words to many other languages, such as Japanese, Indonesian, Malay, Tetum, Swahili, as well as in several creole languages, such as Lanc-Patuá (spoken in northern Brazil) and Sranang Tongo (spoken in Suriname). Portuguese had a strong influence on the language spoken around Sikka in Flores Island, Indonesia. In nearby Larantuka, Portuguese is used for prayers in the Tuan Ma ritual. Portuguese also influenced the Tupi-Guarani-based Lingua G ...

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Portuguese is a member of the Romance branch of the Indo-European language family. Its closest relatives are Galician, Ladino, and Spanish, in that order. Its most distant relative in that family is Romanian. Portuguese language - Galician Spanish and Ladino. Galician: Spoken Portuguese, especially in its Medieval form, is very similar to spoken Galician, even though resemblance is masked in writing because Galician orthography follows the Spanish model. Indeed, the question of whether Portuguese an ...

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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 Macao S.A.R. of China (with Chinese). It is widely spoken, but not official, in Andorra, Luxembourg, Namibia and Paraguay. Portuguese Creoles are the mother tongue of Cape Verde and part of Guinea-Bissau's population. In Cape Verde most also speak standard Portuguese and have a native level language usage. Large Portug ...

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As with French, Portuguese is often noted for its contrastive use of nasal vowels and the large number of diphthongs. European Portuguese has 9 simple non-nasal vowel phonemes (one of which occurs only in unstressed syllables); Brazilian Portuguese has 7. Both dialects have 5 simple nasal vowel phonemes, and 10 oral and 4 nasal diphthongal phonemes. There are 19 consonant phonemes. European Portuguese differs from the dialects spoken in Brazil and the former Portuguese colonies by a marked velarization that affects vowels as well as c ...

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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, ...

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Almost 90% of the Portuguese vocabulary is derived from Latin; needless to say, with substantial phonological and morphological changes which accumulated throughout its history. One conspicuous and distinctive change was the loss of intervocalic [l] in a very large set of words, such as SALIRE → sair ("to exit"), COLARE → coar ("to drip"). Another pervasive change, also fairly specific to ...

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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, in terms like darwinismo ("Darwinism"). It uses ç and acute, grave, circumflex and tilde accents over vowels, as well as, in some forms and only in Brazil, diaeresis on a U as in lingüística (Linguistics, linguística is used in the rest of the Portuguese speaking nations). Portuguese language - Spelling reforms. As of 2005, Portug ...

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Dream Interpretation Brook

A calm, slow-moving brook is a sign of good health, good luck and success. Turbulent water of a brook denotes that you are restless and stressed. A clear brook in a dream means that your projects will move ahead without complications.

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Dream Interpretation Pain

Pain is a sign of emotions stressed to the limit and offence. Dreaming about pain usually refers to the "emotional" pain in real life. Seeing other people in pain may indicate that your behaviour hurts them or puts their lives in danger.

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