

Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo. 2017 Debate on the Portuguese language in the Senate of Brazil. Former Brazilian president Michel Temer with former Brazilian justice minister Torquato Jardim. Opening of the 15th Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries in 2017. Portuguese world including Brazil, Portugal, Angola, etc. In 2019, Brazilian President Bolsonaro speaks at the United Nations in Brazilian Portuguese. The Portuguese language is spoken in the first place since the inauguration of the United Nations. Since the inauguration of the United Nations, the Brazilian president has delivered his first speech, before all the presidents of the world. History Variants and sociolects of Brazilian Portuguese. Regional varieties of Brazilian Portuguese, while remaining mutually intelligible, may diverge from each other in matters such as vowel pronunciation and speech intonation. Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries have since begun using the new orthography. In Brazil, this reform has been in force since January 2016. All of the CPLP countries have signed the reform. In Portugal, the reform was signed into law by the President on 21 July 2008 allowing for a 6-year adaptation period, during which both orthographies co-existed.

This spelling reform went into effect in Brazil on 1 January 2009. In 1990, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), which included representatives from all countries with Portuguese as the official language, reached an agreement on the reform of the Portuguese orthography to unify the two standards then in use by Brazil on one side and the remaining Portuguese-speaking countries on the other. However, due to the two reasons mentioned above, the gap between the written, formal language and the spoken language is much wider in Brazilian Portuguese than in European Portuguese. Despite this difference between the spoken varieties, Brazilian and European Portuguese differ little in formal writing and remain mutually intelligible. In these latter countries, the language tends to have a closer connection to contemporary European Portuguese, partly because Portuguese colonial rule ended much more recently there than in Brazil, and partly due to the heavy indigenous and African influence on Brazilian Portuguese. With a population of over 203 million, Brazil is by far the world's largest Portuguese-speaking nation and the only one in the Americas.īrazilian Portuguese differs, particularly in phonology and prosody, from varieties spoken in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking African countries. It is spoken by almost all of the 203 million inhabitants of Brazil and spoken widely across the Brazilian diaspora, today consisting of about two million Brazilians who have emigrated to other countries. Brazilian Portuguese ( português brasileiro ), also Portuguese of Brazil ( português do Brasil, ) or South American Portuguese ( português sul-americano) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil and the most influential form of Portuguese worldwide.
