Portuguese has around 220 million native speakers worldwide. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe. It is also an official language in Timor-Leste, Equatorial Guinea and Macau in China.
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Portuguese is regulated by Lisbon Academy of Sciences (in Portuguese) and Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese). Dialects can be broadly divided into Brazilian Portuguese (spoken in Brazil) and European Portuguese, while African Portuguese tends to be more closely related, in written form, to European Portuguese. Portuguese-based creole languages are spoken in Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau.
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The IMF TermBase contains over 17,000 entries and acronyms encountered in IMF documents in areas such as money and banking, public finance, balance of payments, and economic growth.
IATE (Interactive Terminology for Europe) is the EUs terminology database. It has been used in the EU institutions and agencies since summer 2004 for the collection, dissemination and management of EU-specific terminology.
The five-year Saber Mais agreement, valued at around 4 million euros (some 4.7 million U.S. dollars), aims to help Angola train teachers in fields such as mathematics, Portuguese, pre-school education, and special educational needs.
CPLP: On World Portuguese Language Day, UN boss hails languages importance
The statements by UN officials come at a time when Portugal and other Portuguese-language countries, such as Brazil, have restated their interest in adding Portuguese to the roster of official languages at the UN, which currently has six: Arabic, Chinese, Spanish, French, English and Russian.
An eight-month web promotion campaign on business opportunities in Portuguese-speaking countries, co-sponsored by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute and the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries, will be launched next month.
Portuguese is ranked 5th among the top ten languages in terms of the number of Internet users globally, behind English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic. In terms of the percentage of websites in Portuguese as a share of global websites,
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The best way to efficiently reach out to your target audience in a foreign market is to speak the language they follow. Consequently, it is extremely necessary that you get the tone, emotions and expressions right.
Cabo Verde proposes that official documents be reciprocally recognised in Portuguese-speaking countries
The Prime Minister of Cabo Verde proposed that documents issued by a Member State of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) no longer need legalisation for presentation in another Member Stat
In Macau, the old colonial tongue is back in vogue