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   Portuguese language

   Estremenho — Regions of Coimbra and Lisbon (the Lisbon dialect has some peculiar features not shared with the one of Coimbra). ... A distinctive feature of Portuguese is that it preserved the stressed vowels of Vulgar Latin, which became diphthongs in other Romance languages; cf. Fr. pierre, Sp. piedra, It. pietra, Ro. piatră, Port. pedra ("stone"), from Lat. petram; or Sp. fuego, It. fuoco, Fr. feu, Ro. foc, Port. fogo, from Lat. focus ("fire").
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   Portuguese name

   A typical Portuguese name is composed of one or two given names, and two family names. The last surname is the father's family surname; the first surname is the mother's family surname.
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   Brazilian Portuguese

   Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro or português do Brasil; pt-BR) is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by virtually all the almost 200 million inhabitants (2009) of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan and Paraguay. ... Syntactic and morphological features
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   Differences between Spanish and Portuguese

   Portuguese and Spanish are among the most widely spoken languages in the world today. ... Originally from the name Ianus, the God of gates or doors. |
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   Portuguese verb conjugation

   Portuguese verbs display a high degree of inflection. ... Personal infinitive (infinitivo pessoal): "(for me) to do", an infinitive which inflects according to its subject; a rare feature that Portuguese shares with Galician.
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   Angolan Portuguese

   Angolan Portuguese (Portuguese: Português de Angola) is a variety of Portuguese used mostly in Angola where it is an official language. ... Angolans have retained features of Old Portuguese and have become influenced by African languages.
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   Portuguese passport

   Portuguese passports are issued to citizens of Portugal for the purpose of international travel. ... Security features on the cover include: invisible ink printing which is visible under an ultraviolet light.
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   Spanish and Portuguese Jews

   Spanish and Portuguese Jews are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardim who have their main ethnic origins within the crypto-Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula and who shaped communities mainly in Western Europe and the Americas from the late 16th century on. ... Both these features are declining, under the influence of hazzanim from other communities and of Israeli Hebrew.
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   Portuguese East Africa

   Portuguese East Africa (also Mozambique, Portuguese Mozambique or the Overseas Province of Mozambique) is the common name by which the Portuguese Empire's territorial expansion in East Africa was known across different periods of time. Portuguese East Africa was a string of Portuguese overseas colonies and later a Portuguese overseas province along the south-east African coast, which now form the republic of Mozambique.
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    Theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia

    Both these writers try to compare the coastal features of Jave La Grande with modern Australia's, by realigning them. ... Trickett also suggests the Indigenous Australian name for the area may have Portuguese origins.

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