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- proper noun The Portuguese
language asspoken andwritten inPortugal , particularly when itdiffers from other regionalvarieties of that language.
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Examples
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Visit the new experimental poetry blog in European Portuguese and English.
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION EILEEN 2009
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Visit the new experimental poetry blog in European Portuguese and English.
HOUSECAT KUNG FU by GEOFFREY GATZA EILEEN 2009
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The state of religion and education is, I am sorry to say, as low as that of commerce; but the European Portuguese value education highly, and send their children to Goa and elsewhere for instruction in the higher branches.
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I have clearly discussed the one other big significant case where the bifurcation took place -- between Brazilian and European Portuguese note that it too involved definite market pressures and formal usage research.
Site Home Michael S. Kaplan 2011
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Friday's post announcing that a fan named Eduardo Mercer had translated my story into Brazilian Portuguese sparked two more translations; Luis Filipe Silva translated the story into European Portuguese and Paul Pajo translated it into Filipino.
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While those terms are mostly used in the former colonies, many became current in European Portuguese as well.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Portugal: bazar - from Kimbundu kubaza - to break, leave with rush Brazilian Portuguese, particularly in its most informal varieties, and European Portuguese, there can be considerable differences in grammar, as well.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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There is Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese.
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