When the Romans arrived in the Iberian Peninsula in 216 BC, they brought with them the Latin language, from which all Romance languages are descended. The language was spread by Roman soldiers, settlers, and … Meer weergeven

Você, a pronoun meaning "you", is used for educated, formal, and colloquial respectful speech in most Portuguese-speaking regions. In a few Brazilian states such as Meer weergeven

Portuguese belongs to the West Iberian branch of the Romance languages, and it has special ties with the following members of this group:
• Galician, Fala and portunhol do pampa (the way riverense and its sibling dialects are referred to … Meer weergeven

A notable aspect of the grammar of Portuguese is the verb. Morphologically, more verbal inflections from classical Latin have been … Meer weergeven

Portuguese is spoken by approximately 200 million people in South America, 30 million in Africa, 15 million in Europe, 5 million in North America and 0.33 million in Asia and Oceania. It is the native language of the vast majority of the people in Portugal, … Meer weergeven

Most of the lexicon of Portuguese is derived, directly or through other Romance languages, from Latin. Nevertheless, because of its original Lusitanian and Celtic Meer weergeven

Portuguese phonology is similar to those of languages such as Franco-Provençal and Catalan, whereas that of Spanish is similar to those of Sardinian and the Southern Italian dialects Meer weergeven