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Hello
Thank You
How Are You?
Good Night
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I Love You
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Dialect 1
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Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
Spanish and Galician Languages
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Portuguese people or portugueses
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa