Is Portugese the official language of Brazil?
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Brazilian's official language is Portuguese, only. \n\nBrazil started as a Colony from Portugal until its independece. They speak portuguese with different accent from portugal, but it is the same language with same gramatical rules. \n\nYou can find guys speaking other languages because you can learn at the schools. (First english due the cultural domination but now is changing to Spanish - spoken wide world and not at only one country, like Cantonese/"one of 3" Chinese languages). Usually higher classes learn english due the international market.
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Brazil has won the most World Cups. This will help all those of you who are monolingual.
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Many languages are spoken throughout the nations that make up the Netherlands. The Kingdom of the Netherlands is a federation made up of three countries: the Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.\n\nIn The Kingdom of the Netherlands, the offical languages is Dutch however, in the provice of Friesland, Frisian is given equal official recognition. Many other languages are spoken throughout the federation without official government sanction. In The Netherlands,the regional languages Low German, Low Franconian, Flemish and Limburgish are commonly used. Foreign languages are also common, with around three quarters of the population speaking English.\n\nThe Netherlands Antilles are a group of islands located in the Caribbean, as is the nation of Aruba. In Aruba and most parts of the Netherlands Antilles, the main languages in use are Papiamento, English, Dutch and Spanish. Papiamento is a Caribbean creole, and is considered linguistically significant as it appears to be the only language created in the 20th Century.
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Piranha in English, Piranhas in Portuguese.
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Along with Spanish, Portuguese is one of the top ten most spoken languages in the world.  French is at the end of the list with Portuguese at number eight.\n\nYes, portuguese is an incredible language.  If you are a native English speaker with knowledge of Spanish, then you are fine tuned for picking up Portuguese and swallowing it whole!!!\n\nI love portuguese, there are various portuguese communities in the US (New Jersey for example), and yes Brazil is South America's largest and most economically promising country.  They are projected to be increasing for awhile.\n\nBrazilians are such incredibly warm people, you'll have a great time learning Portuguese\n\nIn high school there are always Brazilian exchange students.  the poor brazilians would love to come to US, but it is such a long way.  there certainly won't be an influx of Brazilians comparable to the mexican influx, but still, if you like travel and languages and think you might find yourself in south america or africa then portuguese is the way to go.
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I believe its portuguese for "song"
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Well Portugal colonized Brazil and during the Napoleonic Wars Emperor Dom Pedro II moved his court to Brazil and ruled the Portuguese Empire from there to escape the atrocities of the French.  Thus, Brazil is the only Portuguese speaking country in South or Central America.\n\nSpain settled the rest of south and central America (when a corrupt pope arbitrated a longitudinal line of separation).  Spain instituted a policy of paying it's officials only a fraction of what was required to live on...effectively forcing a system of graft and corruption that exists in Latin America to this day.  The officials even crafted a saying regarding the Crowns' requirements to be honest in dealings and to uphold the law.  "Yo Obisbo y no compleo"  (not sure of the spelling there, been a few years since I took Latin American History).  Means "I obey but do not comply."\n\nMuch of the Iberian peninsula is semi-arid...and except for Argentina and Chile and Mexico....the rest of Latin America is forests or tropical climates...there is some trade, but not all that much, about what one would expect of second world nations.
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It exists, but it's in portuguese only, even because "a sufficient knowledge of the portuguese language" is a condition to be granted portuguese citizenship. Exceptions apply to those whose mother or father is portuguese and those who have been married to a portuguese citizen for at least 3 years.\n\nAnyone else, besides speaking portuguese, has to legally live in portuguese territory for at least 6 years (portuguese-speaking country nationals) or 10 years (nationals of other countries) and prove they have an affective bond to Portugal (no idea how, but I'm sure it's easier than it sounds!). Good luck!\n\nThe website: http://www.portaldocidadao.pt/PORTAL/entidades/MJ/MJU/pt/SER_atribuicao+de+nacionalidade+portuguesa.htm
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portuguese,spanish,and english
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Brasília is the capital of Brazil
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I think brazil is english which is how brazilians spell it, and i think brasil is for spanish
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The official language of the Fifa World Cup is English. All leading referees must know some english to participate in the Cup.
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Both are correct, but the natives like Brasil more. Plus their capital is Brasilia not BraZilia.\n\nThe S makes it more hip, I suppose.
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I know portuguese and english very well! im brazilian, ask away!
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Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: 'Brasil' or República Federativa do Brasil, listen (help·info)[1]), is the largest and most populous country in South America, and fifth largest in the world in both area and population. It is also the second most populous country in the Western Hemisphere after the United States. Spanning a vast area between central South America and the Atlantic Ocean, it is the easternmost country of America and it borders Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French department of French Guiana. In fact, it borders every South American nation except for Ecuador and Chile.\n\nThe country's name is generally believed to be derived from pau-brasil (brazilwood), a tree highly valued by early colonists, though some credit the name to a mythical land mentioned in Europe during Middle Ages. Brazil is home to both extensive agricultural lands and rain forests. Exploring vast natural resources and a large labor pool, it is South America's leading economic power and a regional leader.\n\nBrazilian society is still heavily influenced by Portugal's 300 year colonization. Portuguese is the official language, and the Roman Catholic religion is adopted by most of its people, with a number of adherents never seen in any other country. The population is composed mainly of descendants from European immigrants and Africans brought during the slavery times. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Brazil attracted well over 5 million European, Arab and Japanese immigrants. That period also saw Brazil industrialise, further colonise, and develop its interior.\n\nAfter declaring independence from Portugal in 1822, Brazil became a monarchy until a military coup deposed the emperor and established a Republic in 1889. Brazilian democracy was replaced by dictatorships three times — 1930–1934 and 1937–1945 under Getúlio Vargas, and 1964–1985, under a succession of generals appointed by the military. In the 1980s the military regime ended and a new constitution was established, opening the way to the Brazilians' return to democracy.\n\nCurrently Brazil's greatest challenge is to reactivate its economy, which was once one of the most thriving in the world but had many problems in the last 20-30 years, while dealing with serious issues that plague many of its inhabitants, like poverty, hunger and crime.\n\nHistory of Brazil\nMain article: History of Brazil\n \nAncient map of Brazil issued by the Portuguese explorers in 1519.Brazil is thought to have been inhabited for at least 10,000 years by semi-nomadic populations before the first Portuguese explorers, led by Pedro Álvares Cabral, disembarked in 1500. Over the next three centuries, it was resettled by the Portuguese and exploited mainly for brazilwood (Pau-Brasil) at first, followed by sugarcane (Cana-de-Açúcar) agriculture, coffee beans and gold mining. The colony's source of manpower was initially composed of enslaved Amerindians, and after 1550, mainly African. In 1808, Queen Maria I of Portugal and her son and regent, the future João VI of Portugal, fleeing from the armies of Napoleon, relocated to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the royal family, nobility and government. This is the only recorded trans-continental relocation of a royal family.\n\nThough they returned to Portugal in 1821, the interlude led to the opening of commercial ports to the United Kingdom — at the time isolated from most European ports by Napoleon — and to the elevation of Brazil to the status of a united kingdom under the Portuguese Crown. Upon João VI's departure, the remaining royal government in Rio moved to dissolve the Kingdom of Brazil and return it to the status of colony. This resulted in the small scale conflicts known as the Brazilian War of Independence. On 7 September 1822 Prince regent Dom Pedro I (later Pedro IV of Portugal) declared independence, establ
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Portugal, I believe...\n\nWe also have that in Cape Verde, &, if I'm not mistaking, in Brazil they have it too (I know they use the word for the same "purpose" in Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, & all the other countries that speak Portuguese, but as a last name, I think it first started in Portugal)
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Uma equipa de língua portuguêsa, com certeza.