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Fundo de Garantia do Tempo de Serviço (FGTS) (English: Length-of-Service Guarantee Fund) [1] is a fund created to protect workers in Brazil dismissed without just cause.By opening an account linked to the employment contract, employers deposit in accounts opened at the Caixa Econômica Federal, at the beginning of each month and in the name of the employees, the amount corresponding to 8% of ...
In July 2015, an online petition by the LGBT community was created demanding the dictionary to review the definition of "marriage". The definition was, among others, a "legitimate union between man and woman". The petition requested that the word "people" were used instead of "man" and "woman". The petition got more than three thousand ...
Portuguese is the official and national language of Brazil, [5] being widely spoken by nearly all of its population. Brazil is the most populous Portuguese-speaking country in the world, with its lands comprising the majority of Portugal's former colonial holdings in the Americas.
from the word "zumbi", first recorded in 1819 in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey. [42] This word is given West African origin by the Oxford English Dictionary, and was incorporated into the Portuguese language by interaction with enslaved Africans in Brazil.
Portuguese world including Brazil, Portugal, Angola, etc. Opening of the 15th Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries in 2017. . Former Brazilian president Michel Temer with former Brazilian justice minister Torquato Jardim. 2017 Debate on the Portuguese language in the Senate of Bra
Portuñol (Spanish spelling) or Portunhol (Portuguese spelling) (pronunciation ⓘ) is a portmanteau of the words portugués/português ("Portuguese") and español/espanhol ("Spanish"), and is the name often given to any non-systematic mixture of Portuguese and Spanish [1] (this sense should not be confused with the dialects of the Portuguese language spoken in northern Uruguay by the ...
Old Tupi is the only indigenous language with a significant presence in the lexicon of the Portuguese spoken in Brazil, as well as in its toponymy and anthroponymy. It also left a legacy in Brazilian literature , such as the lyrical and theatrical poetry of Joseph of Anchieta and the letters of the Camarão Indians .
The Guaraní language has been an object of study since the arrival of the Jesuits in the seventeenth century. [1] The Guaraní language is a subgroup within the Tupí-Guaraní branch. [1] There are three dialects within the Guaraní subgroup: Mbyá, Kaiowá and Ñandeva. [7]