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Sal y pimienta. (Spanish) Sal e pimenta. (Portuguese) 'Salt and pepper.' Judío e hindú. (Spanish) Judeu e hindu. (Portuguese) 'Jewish and Hindu.' Leones y hienas. (Spanish) Leões e hienas. (Portuguese) 'Lions and hyenas.' Similarly, for the conjunction "or" Spanish uses o [o̞] before all words except those beginning with o- or ho-, in which ...
A new agreement between Portugal and Brazil – effective in 1971 in Brazil and in 1973 in Portugal – brought the orthographies slightly closer, removing the written accents responsible for 70% of the divergences between the two official systems and those that marked the unstressed syllable in words derived with the suffix -mente or beginning ...
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.
Portuguese Speaking World - Countries and Territories where portuguese is spoken - Native Language in Dark Green. The Portuguese-speaking world, also known as the Lusophone World (Mundo Lusófono) or the Lusosphere, comprises the countries and territories in which the Portuguese language is an official, administrative, cultural, or secondary language.
Currently, films not originally in Portuguese (usually Hollywood productions) are dubbed separately into two accents: one for Portugal and one for Brazil; the accent used for Portugal is also the one used for Portuguese-speaking Africa and Macau, and now even in East Timor, except using regionalisms. When dubbing an African character in ...
Portugal claims de jure sovereignty over Olivenza / Olivença on the grounds that the Treaty of Badajoz was revoked by its own terms (which stated: the breach of any of its articles would lead to its cancellation) when Spain invaded Portugal in the Peninsular War of 1807 and, foremost, due to the fact that Spain signed the Treaty of Vienna in ...
Uruguayan Portuguese (português uruguaio, [poɾtuˈɣes uɾuˈɣwajo]), also known as fronteiriço [2] ([fɾõteˈɾiso]) and riverense, and referred to by its speakers as portunhol [3] (locally [poɾtuˈɲɔl]), is a variety of Portuguese in South America with heavy influence from Rioplatense Spanish.
anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal. Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods; Portuguese language, a Romance language Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language; Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine animal; Portuguese people, an ethnic group