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Typewritten text in Portuguese; note the acute accent, tilde, and circumflex accent.. Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes.
Miguxês (Portuguese pronunciation: [miɡuˈʃes] or [miɣuˈʃeʃ]), also known in Portugal as pita talk or pita script (pronounced ), is an Internet slang of the Portuguese language that was popular in the 2000s and early 2010s among Brazilian teenagers on the Internet and other electronic media, such as messages written on cell phones.
Portuguese dialects are the mutually intelligible variations of the Portuguese language in Portuguese-speaking countries and other areas holding some degree of cultural bond with the language. Portuguese has two standard forms of writing and numerous regional spoken variations, with often large phonological and lexical differences.
The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attributive sense, whereas diacritical is only an adjective. Some diacritics, such as the acute ó , grave ò , and circumflex ô (all shown above an 'o'), are often called accents. Diacritics may appear above or below a letter or in some other position such as within the letter or ...
The consonant inventory of Portuguese is fairly conservative. [citation needed] The medieval Galician-Portuguese system of seven sibilants (/ts dz/, /ʃ ʒ/, /tʃ/, and apicoalveolar /s̺ z̺/) is still distinguished in spelling (intervocalic c/ç z, x g/j, ch, ss -s-respectively), but is reduced to the four fricatives /s z ʃ ʒ/ by the merger of /tʃ/ into /ʃ/ and apicoalveolar /s̺ z̺ ...
abafadores - earmuffs/headphones; abençoado - blessed; aberta - opened; abraço - hug; absolutamente - absolutely; acabado - finished; acabar - to end; acalma - calm down
The Basque influence in Portuguese is believed to have entered mainly through Spanish, because many of those who took part in the Reconquista and later repopulation campaigns in Portugal, were of Basque lineage. [citation needed] carrasco "executioner" or "Portuguese oak", from Basque karraska "thunder, crash of falling tree" [3]
Temporarily but sine die, diacritics demonstrated using dotted circle must be in serif, because of a current limitation in Android (the OS used by the largest number of visitors). For background, see template talk:Unichar#Combining diacritics are displaying as tofu on Android - fault may be in cwith= handling?