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German speakers from Germany, Switzerland and Austria make up the largest group of immigrants after Portuguese and Italian speakers. They tended to preserve their language longer than the speakers of Italian, which is closer to Portuguese. Consequently, German and Low Saxon/German was the second most common family language in Brazil at the 1940 ...
No effort was made to suppress the Lutheran church; the teaching of foreign languages, including German, in high schools and colleges continued, [72] as well as their private use. Publicly speaking foreign languages, including German, was banned under penalty of imprisonment; this was especially enforced against the public use of German. Stores ...
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With German immigration to Brazil, over the past two centuries, German dialects have also come to establish themselves as a regional language.However, something curious happened: while in Germany standard German served for speakers of different dialects to communicate, in Brazil, due to the still incipient consolidation of standard German when immigration started, this role was played by the ...
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Currently, the language survives mainly in Brazil, where it is spoken by descendants of German immigrants of the 19th century and where it was given its own script by the linguist Ismael Tressmann. It has co-official status in 11 Brazilian municipalities and has been recognized as a historical and cultural heritage of the Brazilian state of ...
A bilingual dictionary or translation dictionary is a specialized dictionary used to translate words or phrases from one language to another. Bilingual dictionaries can be unidirectional, meaning that they list the meanings of words of one language in another, or can be bidirectional, allowing translation to and from both languages ...
The Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) is the sign language used by deaf people in Brazilian urban centers [29] and legally recognized as a means of communication and expression. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] It is derived both from an autochthonous sign language, which is native to the region or territory in which it lives, and from French sign language ...