Portuguese language
Linguistic variety of vulgar Latin gave rise to what was called romance dialects to which Portuguese language derive from
Vulgar Latin
Iberian Languages
Germanic
Up to 218 b.C 419 b.C
Latin
Galician-Portuguese
711 b.C 1214 a.C 1249 a.C
Arabic
today
Portuguese
400 A.C. Germanic influences
Between the 13th and 15th Portugal was opened to foreign influences.
3500 B.C. – Northern Europe influences 200 A.C. Romanic influences
Germanic Latin
…
711 A.C. – Muslim influences
13th century Portugal defines its frontiers
Portuguese
Portuguese
and
Spanish
maintain,
for
example,
the
traditional
Latin
verb comedere (comer in both Portuguese and Spanish), meaning "to eat", while Italy and France adopted the new term manducare, which became mangiare and manger.
Another example is the Latin word for "cheese" (caseus), from which developed the Portuguese queijo and Spanish queso. In France and Italy however, caseus was replaced by formaticus and from this term evolved the French fromage, and Italian fromaggio. You can see why Portuguese and Spanish are the most similar of all the Romance languages.
It’s the 7th most spoken language in the world
Language
Number of speakers (millions)
1. Chinese
937
2. Spanish
332
3. English
332
4. Bengali
189
5. Hindi/Urdu
182
6. Arabic
174
7. Portuguese
170
“Saudade� is the only word in Portuguese that has no translation to any foreign language.
Camþes Institute was created to promote the Portuguese language and culture abroad. Therefore, it has to ensure the guidance, coordination and implementation of Portugal’s foreign cultural policy, including the dissemination of the Portuguese language.
In order to erase some divergences in terms of writing and pronunciation of some Portuguese words, in 1990 was signed by the official representatives of the then seven Portuguese-speaking countries (Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tome and Principe) the Spelling Agreement of the Portuguese Language (“Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa”)
The Portuguese Museum was inaugurated on March 20 of 2006 in S達o Paulo (Brazil) and in first 3 years was visited by more than 2 million people, making it one of the most visited museums in South America.
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