wiktionary Portuguese is an adjective referring to matters related to Portugal . It may refer to Portuguese language , natively spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, East Timor and other countries including Portuguese dialects Portuguese people , the people of Portugal See also Special PrefixIndex Portuguese All pages beginning with Portuguese Sonnets from the Portuguese A Portuguesa Portuguese hymn Lusofonia Lusitania disambig de Portugiesisch ext Purtugu s fa os it Portoghese kn hu Portug l egy rtelm s t lap pt Portugu s scn Portughisi simple Portuguese disambiguation ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2009 Damanese Portuguese is the dialect of Portuguese language Portuguese spoken in Daman and Diu , India . Portuguese dialects Category Portuguese dialects lang stub india stub portugal stub ... more details
Goan Portuguese is the dialect of Portuguese language Portuguese spoken in Goa , India . Portuguese dialects Category Portuguese dialects Category Culture of Goa Category Languages of India India stub language stub pt portugu s de Goa ... more details
Portuguese Castle may refer to Castles in Portugal Fort of Our Lady of the Conception in Hormoz island , also known as the Portuguese Castle disambiguation ... more details
Chinese Portuguese or Portuguese Chinese may refer to Macanese language , a Portuguese based creole originating from Macau Macanese cuisine , the cuisine of Macau, with influences from southern Chinese and Portuguese cuisines Macanese people , people of mixed Chinese and Portuguese descent in Macau Eurasian mixed ancestry people of Chinese and Portuguese descent in other countries People with dual citizenship of China and Portugal See also Chinese people in Portugal disambig ... more details
Multiple issues cleanup May 2010 orphan April 2010 wikify December 2010 The Portugal Portuguese Rumba Rumba Portuguesa in Portuguese is a music style created by Portuguese gypsies. It is played in electronic organs. External links Commons category http www.youtube.com watch?v 9fuXOf vp5U Example of Portuguese Rumba in a electronic organ by JMD MU OZ http www.youtube.com watch?v mTt7HLF8aS4 DJ JORGE Nando RUMBA PORTUGUESA REMIX 2010 DEFAULTSORT Portuguese Rumba Category Portuguese dances ... more details
unreferenced date October 2007 Portuguese Africans lang pt luso africanos are Portuguese people born or permanently settled in Africa they should not be confused with Portuguese of Black African ancestry .The largest Portuguese African population lives in South Africa numbering about 1 million , while there are important minorities living in Namibia and the Portuguese speaking African countries Angola , Cape Verde , Guinea Bissau , Mozambique , and S o Tom and Pr ncipe . Guinea Bissau became an independent country in 1974, followed by the rest of the colonies in 1975. Most Portuguese residents, for this reason, returned to Portugal , where they were called History of Portugal 1974 1986 The retornados retornados . Some from Angola or Mozambique went to South Africa, Malawi , Namibia, or Zimbabwe , and Brazil or the United States . When the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries was founded in 1996, some Portuguese and a number of Portuguese Brazilian Brazilians of Portuguese racial background arrived for economic and educational aid to the Portuguese speaking African countries . Some of these Portuguese adopted them as their permanent home. Most Portuguese Africans are Portuguese South Africans , mainly as a result of direct migration from Portugal, namely from Madeira . See also Portuguese Americans Portuguese Angolans Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese Mozambicans Portuguese South Africans Portuguese diaspora Africa ethno group stub Portugal stub Category Angolan people of Portuguese descent Category Mozambican people of Portuguese descent Category South African people of Portuguese descent ja pt Luso africanos zh ... more details
References date December 2010 Infobox Ethnic group population 1 million 2010 http statline.cbs.nl StatWeb publication ?DM SLNL&PA 37325&D1 a&D2 0 4,136,151,214,231&D3 0&D4 0&D5 174&D6 a, 0 8&VW T CBS Statline languages Portuguese language Portuguese , Dutch language Dutch popplace flag Netherlands religions Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholicism related Other Portuguese people Portuguese people Portuguese in the Netherlands also known as Portuguese Dutch or the Dutch Portuguese Community is a term that refers to citizens or residents of the Netherlands whose ethnic origins lie in the Iberian Peninsula South Western Europe an nation of Portugal . Demographics Portuguese Dutch are Portuguese born citizens with a Dutch citizenship or Dutch born citizens of Portuguese ancestry or citizenship. Portuguese arrived to the Netherlands in the early and middle 18th century, as immigrants, mostly from Madeira Island and Lisbon. Over 1 million of Dutch people claim that they are of Portuguese descent. fact date December 2010 Nobele people Bruno Martins Indi Fatima Moreira de Melo Fernando Pereira Ethnic groups in the Netherlands Portuguese diaspora Category Ethnic groups in the Netherlands Category Dutch people of Portuguese descent ... more details
Guinean Portuguese Portugu s Guineense in Portuguese language Portuguese is the variety of Portuguese ... than Portuguese, it is Guinea Bissau Creole which serves as the lingua franca and the vehicle of national identity spoken as both a first and second language. Thus Portuguese, for those who speak it, is often a third language. The native Portuguese speakers in Guinea Bissau are mostly white Guineans. The reduction of native Portuguese speakers is caused by leave of most white Guineans to Portugal ... who speak Portuguese are concentrated in an area of the capital city, Bissau, known as a Pra a . The variety ... Lusophone Lusitanized , borrowing words more freely from Portuguese. The standard phonology is European Portuguese . But for second and third language speakers, it is affected by phonologies of native languages and resembles Brazilian Portuguese . History Portuguese was used as a communication between Portuguese settlers and different black tribes most are Fula people Fulas , Mandinka people Mandingos , Manjaco s, and Balanta people Balante before the nation became a permanent Portugal Portuguese overseas territory. The number of Portuguese speakers was large during Portuguese Empire Portuguese rule , although mulatto mesti os and most blacks speak a Portuguese Creole called Guinea Bissau Creole , which is a more widely spoken lingua franca of the nation. After independence, when most Portuguese left, Portuguese speakers were reduced to less than 10 because of civil war that affected education ... in 1996, it helped Guinea Bissau in education aside from peace talks there. Many Portuguese, Brazil ian, and Portuguese speaking African countries PALOP mostly Angola n teachers entered to increase Portuguese fluency among blacks. In 2005, in order to increase Portuguese fluency, there was an agreement ... , Cati , Bolama , Bubaque , and Quinhamel . The percentage of Portuguese speakers increased to 14 . See ... na frica Guin Bissau br Languages of Guinea Bissau Portuguese dialects Category Portuguese dialects ... more details
European Portuguese portugu s europeu in Portuguese refers to the variety of Portuguese language Portuguese ... was chosen to avoid the clash of PortuguesePortuguese as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese . Geographic variation The two main divisions of European Portuguese differentiate between the List of islands of Portugal Portuguese Islands Madeira , the Azores , etc. and mainland Portugal Continental Portuguese citation needed date January 2009 . Continental Portuguese is in turn divided roughly into Northern .... ref Portuguese as a Pluricentric Language , Baxter A.N. Pluricentric languages By Michael G. Clyne pp.14 ref Phonetically, differences emerge within Continental Portuguese. For example, in northern Portugal, the phonemes IPA b and IPA v are less differentiated than in the rest of the Portuguese ... regional variety of Portuguese greater proximity to Galician. Another regionalism can be found .... Portuguese is spoken by a significant minority in Andorra and Luxembourg. The Principality of Andorra ... Galicia in Spain, is very closely related to Portuguese. There is, as yet, no consensus among writers and linguists on whether Galician is a variety of Portuguese or a distinct yet closely related ... from the Spanish government. The prominence of European Portuguese Portugal maintained its colonial rule over its old world empire much longer than it did over Brazil. Thus European Portuguese ... of these places. In Europe, European Portuguese remains the learning standard for PLE Portuguese ... which promotes not only the Portuguese language but also Portuguese culture. Thus, it promotes Continental Portuguese as a norm for learners. RTPi RTP is the Portuguese public television network and also serves as a vehicle for European Portuguese providing media content throughout the world. There is a branch of RTPi named RTP frica , which serves Portuguese speaking African countries Lusophone Africa . In estimating the size of the speech community for European Portuguese, one must take into account ... more details
The Portuguese Revolution may refer to The Portuguese Revolution of 1910 , which saw the overthrow of the Portuguese monarchy The Portuguese Revolution of 1974 , also known as the Carnation Revolution, which saw the overthrow of the Portuguese Estado Novo dictatorship Occasionally used to describe the History of Portugal 1777 1834 Napoleonic invasions situation in Portugal following the French invasion of 1807, during which the royal family fled to Brazil. Disambig ... more details
multiple issues citation style July 2009 unreferenced July 2009 refimprove November 2010 Portuguese Venezuelan s are Portuguese people Portuguese born citizens with Venezuela n citizenship or Venezuelan born citizens of Portuguese ancestry or citizenship. Mostly located in Caracas , Valencia, Carabobo Valencia and Maracaibo , the Portuguese community of Venezuela are among the largest ethnic groups in the country. There is even a state named Portuguesa theorotically dedicated to the area s Portuguese settlement. Portuguese arrived to Venezuela in the early and middle 20th century, as immigrants, mostly from Madeira Island . Venezuela has the second Portuguese diaspora in Latin America and fourth in The Americas. There is strong interest among a large segment of the Portuguese in Venezeula to preserve the culture and familial bond with the old country Portugal , while they along with Italians and Germans have been important in the development of Venezuela. Ethnic Groups In Venezuela Portuguese diaspora Category People of Portuguese descent Venezuelan Category Venezuelan people of Portuguese descent Category Ethnic groups in Venezuela ja pt Luso venezuelanos ... more details
Portuguese Legion may refer to Portuguese Legion Napoleonic Wars , 1808&ndash 1813, military unit serving in concert with the forces of Napoleon Portuguese Legion Estado Novo , paramilitary state existing from 1936&ndash 1974 Disambig ... more details
Refimprove date October 2008 Ethnic group group Portuguese Mozambican br small Luso mo ambicano small ... Pemba langs Portuguese language Portuguese , Tsonga language Xitsonga , Makhuwa language Makhuwa ... Portuguese people , Portuguese Brazilian , white Brazilian s, Portuguese Africans Portuguese Mozambicans lang pt luso mo ambicanos are Mozambique Mozambican born descendants of Portuguese people Portuguese settlers . History Portuguese explorers turned to present day Mozambique and two other Portuguese ... named Brazil , in the 14th century. The first permanent Portuguese communities in the region were ... estates , to be lived by Portuguese people Portuguese settler families in the 17th century. Mozambique was declared a Portuguese Empire Portuguese province by the 19th century. By the early 20th century ... had 370,000 Portuguese settlers, who improved its economy, by the 1960s. It was during this time that Ant nio de Oliveira Salazar led Portugal, in which several thousands of Portuguese citizens ... States . Blacks and some mulattos mesti os and whites revolted against Portuguese rule in 1974 ... overseas colonies in 1975. Large numbers of Portuguese residents emigrated shortly after, most of them ... page6portugal.html Portuguese Immigration History ref and the United States. Most notable legacy of Portuguese Mozambican settlers in South Africa is Nando s , created in 1987 , which incorporated influences from former Portuguese settlers from Mozambique, many of whom had settled on the south ... Portuguese civilians, many were allowed to take with them only a single suitcase and 150 150 Mozambican ... Portuguese settlers were given by the government a 3 month decision to choose Mozambican citizenship .... ref http www.time.com time magazine article 0,9171,913229 2,00.html MOZAMBIQUE Dismantling the Portuguese Empire ref Thousands more Portuguese would leave during the subsequent Mozambican Civil War civil war , most of these fleeing to South Africa, Swaziland , or Portugal. When the Community of Portuguese ... more details
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Multiple issues cleanup June 2009 primarysources June 2009 Macanese Portuguese or Patu Portugu s Macaense is a Portuguese language Portuguese dialect spoken in Macau . It is official language co official ... language. It is distinct from the Macanese language , a Portuguese Creole in Macau. History Image ... with the Portuguese language in 1557 when it was established as a trade center of Portugal to other ... and Macau was declared a formal Portuguese Empire Portuguese province and it was made an official language, along with Cantonese. Currently, there is only one school in Macau where Portuguese is the medium of instruction. Portugal returned Macau to China in 1999 but Portuguese remained an official language. There has been an increase in the teaching of Portuguese owing to the growing trade links between ...&sec &spon &pagewanted all China Sees Advantages in Macao s Portuguese Past , New York Times , October 21 , 2004 ref Features Phonology The Macanese dialect is traditionally an Old Portuguese variety, in some aspects similar to Brazilian Portuguese in pronunciation. For example, the word p de is pronounced IPA pod i in most part of Brazil but IPA pod in Standard European Portuguese . The only Portuguese medium school is in European Portuguese, as with most of the Community of Portuguese ... phonology made by those who speak Portuguese as a second language, such as a rhotic and non rhotic accents non rhotic accent final IPA r is dropped, as in African Portuguese and most Brazilian dialects ... higher education in Portuguese. Grammar Macanese grammar was also Old Portuguese similar to Brazilian Portuguese, but it now follows the European grammar. Lexicon Vocabulary is the same as in Portugal ... sum goh lor , goh low and shu tiu , si tiu . It reached to countries and regions where Portuguese is spoken, especially Portugal where it was brought by Portuguese returnees and some Chinese and Macanese ... through leaving Portuguese settlers with some Macanese and Chinese settlers. References references ... more details
Image Palop.svg thumb 300px The PALOP, highlighted in red Image Portuguese discoveries diogo cao.jpg ... century. Africa is home to the fastest growing Portuguese speaking countries, making Africa a major player in the future development of Portuguese as an international language in the 21st century. Portuguese language Portuguese is spoken in 5 African nations Cape Verde , Guinea Bissau , S o Tom and Pr ncipe , Angola , and Mozambique . Portuguese language Portuguese is a post colonial language ... Community SADC . What makes these varieties of Portuguese logical Fact date January 2009 to group together ... history and the fact that African Portuguese co exists with Portuguese based creoles Upper ... family . In Africa, Portuguese experiences pressure and possibly competition from African French ... distribution In sub Saharan Africa, the nation states with Portuguese as an official language are referred to by the acronym Portuguese speaking African countries PALOP lang pt Pa ses Africanos ... and S o Tom and Pr ncipe . Portuguese is a primarily urban language having a reduced presence .... South Africa also has approximately 1,000,000 speakers of Portuguese, largely white Angolans ... have resulted in more recent migrations of refugees some of whom speak Portuguese to neighbouring ... and also some returning white Portuguese African refugees and their descendants from Brazil, Portugal ..., and most importantly, arrival of Portuguese post colonial settlers in Angola in the recent years ... of Guinea Bissau Creole in its southern region of Casamance, which was once part of the Portuguese colonial empire. Portuguese is taught as a foreign language throughout the country. ref http www.the news.net cgi bin google.pl?id 973 10 Over 17,000 Senegalese learning Portuguese ref In 2008, Senegal became an observer nation in the CPLP . Equatorial Guinea , at one point a Portuguese colony, is home to a Portuguese based Creole and is an observer nation in the CPLP. The language is now official ... more details
ethnic group group Portuguese Burghers image poptime 5,000 popplace Sri Lanka , United Kingdom , Australia , New Zealand , Canada , USA rels Roman Catholic langs Portuguese Creole , English language English and Sinhala language Sinhala related Burgher People , Portuguese people Portuguese , Sinhalese people Sinhalese , Sri Lanka Kaffir people Kaffirs The Portuguese Burghers are an ethnic group in Sri Lanka , of mixed Portuguese people Portuguese and Sri Lankan descent. They are Roman Catholicism in Sri Lanka Roman Catholic and spoke the Sri Lanka Indo Portuguese language , a creole language creole based on Portuguese language Portuguese . In modern times, English has become the common language ... number of Portuguese Burghers exist in the east coast of Sri Lanka of Portuguese Dutch descent, this is evident in the Sri Lanka Indo Portuguese language which has many affiliations to Sinhalese and Portuguese. Origins The Portuguese Burghers are largely descendant from the Sri Lanka Mesti o people Sri Lanka Mesti os , the people of mixed Portugal Portuguese and Sri Lankan descent either a Portuguese father and a Sri Lankan mother, or a Sri Lankan mother of Portuguese descent and a Sri Lankan father who appeared in the 16th century, after the Portuguese explorers found the sea route to the Indian ... of the Portuguese took refuge in the central hills of Kandyan Kingdom under Sinhalese rule. In time, the Dutch and Portuguese descendants intermarried. Though under Dutch rule Portuguese was banned the Portuguese speaking community was so widespread that even the Dutch started to speak Portuguese. In the 18th century, the Eurasian mixed ancestry Eurasian community a mixture of Portuguese, Dutch, and Sinhalese as well as Tamil, known as the Burgher people Burgher , grew, speaking Portuguese or Dutch language Dutch . The Portuguese Burghers were more mixed, following Catholicism and speaking a Portuguese creole language. Despite the socio economic disadvantage, the Burghers maintained ... more details
Ethnic group group Portuguese Angolan br small Luso Angolano small STOP INSERTING FLAGS, CARLMART poptime 7,000 120,000 July 2008 census popplace Luanda , Benguela langs Portuguese language Portuguese ... Roman Catholic related Portuguese people , Portuguese Brazilian , Brazilians, Portuguese Africans Portuguese Angolan lang pt luso angolano is a Portuguese people person of Portuguese descent born in Angola . History The first Portuguese settlements in Angola were established in the 16th century. Some Portuguese settlers married native Africans resulting in a mixed race mulato population. Angola was declared a formal Portuguese Empire Portuguese province in the 19th century, but only in the early ... and its other provinces. In the 1960s, Angola had around 400,000 Portuguese settlers, who significantly ... Africa and the United States . The simmering revolt against Portuguese rule erupted in 1974. When ... page6portugal.html Portuguese Immigration History ref , or United States. Among the departed Portuguese civilians, many were allowed to take with them only a single suitcase and 150 Angolan escudo ... ref http www.time.com time magazine article 0,9171,913229 4,00.html MOZAMBIQUE Dismantling the Portuguese Empire ref . The new government gave all remaining Portuguese settlers a few months period ... Civil War was erupting. When the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries was established in 1996, Portuguese and some Portuguese Brazilian ethnic Portuguese from Brazil entered Angola to set up businesses to improve the economy and work as teachers to increase the Portuguese language fluency of the population. Regardless of 27 years of Civil War, many Portuguese refugees who had left for Namibia ... Revolution returned to Angola. In recent years, some Portuguese have migrated to Angola for economic ... , September 13, 2008 ref As of 2008, Angola was the preferred destination for Portuguese migrants ... of the Portuguese settlement in Angola Their migrations increased the Portuguese population from ... more details
Infobox Film name Portuguese Rhapsody image image size caption director Jo o Mendes producer Felipe de Solms writer Fernanda de Castro br Ant nio Ferro narrator Pedro Moutinho starring music cinematography M rio Moreira editing distributor released 30 March 1959 runtime 86 minutes country Film Portugal language Portuguese budget preceded by followed by Portuguese Rhapsody lang pt Raps dia Portuguesa is a 1959 in film 1959 cinema of Portugal Portuguese documentary film directed by Jo o Mendes . It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival . ref name festival cannes.com cite web url http www.festival cannes.com en archives ficheFilm id 3446 year 1959.html title Festival de Cannes Portuguese Rhapsody accessdate 2009 02 15 work festival cannes.com ref References reflist External links imdb title id 0052118 title Portuguese Rhapsody CinemaofPortugal Category 1959 films Category Portuguese films Category Portuguese language films Category Portuguese documentary films Category Films directed by Jo o Mendes Portugal film stub ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group Portuguese Australian br small Luso australianos small image Image Moises Henriques NSW.jpg 120px caption Moises Henriques flagicon Portugal flagicon Australia poptime Portuguese ... , and Adelaide , among others. langs Australian English Portuguese language Portuguese br Portuguese Creole rels Predominantly br Roman Catholic Protestant Jewish minority related Portuguese people PortuguesePortuguese Canadian br Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese American Portuguese Australians are either Portugal Portuguese emigrated to or living in Australia , or native Australians with Portuguese ... Australian Italian communities, Portuguese Australians form a very organized, self conscious ... c portal layout?p l id PUB.1.493 List of numerous Portuguese Social Clubs and institutions based in Australia Portuguese ref , radio shows ref http www.radio.sbs.com.au language.php?language Portuguese SBS Radio Portuguese ref , newspapers ref http www.consulportugalsydney.org.au community.php media Portuguese Consulate New South Wales ref , outdoor cultural festivals ref http www.youtube.com watch?v MyTNnJakzTA Portuguese Festival at Petersham, Sydney Youtube ref , culinary feasts, and even a Petersham, New South Wales traditional ethnic neighbourhood , the ever growing Portuguese Australians form roughly 0.4 of Australia s population. The biggest Portuguese Australian community ... such as Melbourne ref http www.apv.org.au En index.html Portuguese Association of Victoria ref , Wollongong ... wa Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Australian Government Portuguese Consulate Western ... comunidadesrtp comunidade.php?id 776 The Brisbane Portuguese Family Center Portuguese ref , Adelaide ... Government PDF ref . There are approximately 56,000 Portuguese migrants and Australians with Portuguese ... of Portuguese discovery of Australia Portuguese explorers were the first Europeans to visit Australia . The Portuguese cuisine has also made its way to the mainstream australian society, with the fast ... more details
Infobox Newspaper name The Portuguese Tribune logo image caption type format owners The Tagus Group publisher ... photoeditor staff foundation 1979 political Independent language English and Portuguese ceased ... The Portuguese Tribune , also known as Tribuna Portuguesa, is a Portuguese bilingual newspaper ... in San Jose, CA. ref United States Library of Congress. Portuguese Immigrants in the United States ... publisher and editor is Jos vila. History of The Portuguese Tribune Regularly published since September 1979, The Portuguese Tribune was a weekly newspaper headquartered in the heart of the Portuguese ... to the publication and significantly modernized The Portuguese Tribune increasing the number of contributors ... from Portugal that subscribers already had access through the web, RTPi TV, and other Portuguese language ... to a more than 100 increase in subscribers. ref Miguel Valle vila, Parabens Nossa Tribuna. The Portuguese ... Rock Avenue to the corner of 33rd Street to the rectory of Five Wounds Portuguese National Church to 27th Street, all in San Jose s Little Portugal district to its present address in Modesto, The Portuguese ... Portuguese Newspapers in California The Portuguese Tribune was the 28th Portuguese newspaper to be founded in California since A Voz Portuguesa Portuguese Voice in 1884 in San Francisco. The Portuguese Tribune was the first Portuguese newspaper in California since the Capelinhos Volcano wave of immigration from the Azores Islands. Since then, others were established, but none other than The Portuguese ... 1992 1995, Portuguese American Chronicle 1997 2006, and Lusitania News 2006. ref Fernando Manuel Soares Silva, PhD, The Portuguese Press in California. Capelinhos, A Volcano of Sinergies. Portuguese Heritage Publications. 2008. http www.portuguesebooks.org ref Even the old Jornal Portugues Portuguese ... Noticias 1917 1932 but previously O Arauto since 1896 , and Colonia Portugueza Portuguese Colony 1924 1932 ceased to exist in 1997 after over a century of publication. Causes In the 1980s, The Portuguese ... more details
Wikify date April 2010 Orphan date October 2008 The Portuguese Club was founded by the late Carlos Batista, Manuel Ribeiro and Joaquim Leitao on June 5, 1974. Together they conceived the idea that a meeting place was needed where the Portuguese local citizens could interact, get to know one another and enrich their heritage and culture. They began by compiling a list of potentially interested people to form the first Membership Roster, followed by a meeting to elect the first Board of Directors. The newly formed Portuguese Social Club was then registered through the Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stocks as a Charitable Society. Prior to moving to their new building situated at 30 Mount Hope Avenue on December 31, 1999, the Portuguese Social Club met at St. Paul s Parish of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia , Canada since their inception in 1974. The Portuguese Social Club remains deeply grateful to St. Paul s Parish of Dartmouth, for their welcome and assistance and for the use of the facilities andchurch. Portuguese Club Communities Canada http portuguesesocialclub.org Dartmouth, Nova Scotia The Portuguese Social Club is a Society established to Promote, Preserve, Maintain our Cultural Heritage and to Unite all Portuguese of Nova Scotia. Category Civic and political organizations of Canada Category 1974 establishments ... more details
Image Portugese church dadar 3.jpg thumb Portuguese Church, Dadar West Nossa Senhora de Salva o Our Lady of Salvation is one of the oldest churches in Mumbai formerly called Bombay built by the Portuguese Franciscans . It was built at Dadar village in Bombay in 1596. It is also popularly referred as Portuguese Church . References http www.maharashtra.gov.in english gazetteer greater bombay history.html 4 Greater Bombay District Gazetteer Portuguese Period coord missing Maharashtra This church has been designed by famous Indian architect Charles Correa . The church was constructed between 1974 and 1977 . Category Churches in Mumbai ... more details
Alentejan Portuguese is a dialect of Portuguese language Portuguese spoken in the Portuguese region of Alentejo , and in the Spanish municipalities of Olivenza and T liga where exists a subdialect which for several centuries 1297 to 1801 were part of Portugal . It is currently endangered language endangered . Characteristics Antepositon of the article grammar article before the possessive pronoun Transformation of the vocalic group ou , into oi . Ex oitro Portuguese outro Paragoge in i , in the verb s in infinitive. Ex fazeri Portuguese fazer Absence of diphthong ei , transforming into e . Ex galinhero Portuguese galinheiro , Spanish gallinero Expand section date December 2009 Present situation The 2005 report of the Council of Europe s expert group on the implementation in Spain of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages , 2005 ref http www.boe.es boe dias 2001 09 15 pdfs A34733 34749.pdf Carta Europea de las Lenguas Minoritarias o Regionales ref asked the Spanish government to furnish information about the situation of Oliventian Portuguese, and for measures for the protection and promotion of that language under the provisions of Article 7 of the Charter ref http www.coe.int t e legal affairs local and regional democracy regional or minority languages 2 monitoring ... in 2006, there are no references to Oliventian Portuguese ref http www.coe.int t e legal affairs ... de 2008 p. 9. ref quote 48. The Expert Committee has received no information on the use of Portuguese ... visit, the Portuguese language the Oliventina is traditionally spoken in Olivenza and T liga since ..., but indicates that Portuguese is taught as a foreign language in the education field. br 50. The Expert Committee can not assess the situation of Portuguese in Extremadura, and urges the authorities ... Al m Guadiana , recently established to promote the Portuguese language. References reflist Portuguese dialects Category Endangered languages of Europe Category Portuguese dialects Category ... more details
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