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Portuguese (commonly misspelled Portugese) is an adjective referring to matters related to Portugal. It is also a noun that refers to the Portuguese language or the Portuguese people: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...
Portuguese language, a Romance language spoken primarily in Portugal, Brazil, São Tomé e Príncipe, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, East Timor, and Macau.
Portuguese people, generally defined as citizens or natives of Portugal
See also: Category:Portugal Portuguese ( ) is a Romance language, of the Indo-European family. ... The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe. ...
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By this time, however, the Portuguese Empire was already under severe attack from the ambitions of other countries, namely Britain and the Netherlands, and Portugal entered a slow but inexorable decline until the 20th Century, especially after the independence of Brazil in 1822, entering a period of political chaos and civil wars.
The four main organs of Portuguese politics are the President of the Republic, the Assembly of the Republic, the Government, and the Courts.
Portuguese cuisine is particularly diverse; various recipes of rice, potatoes, bread, meat, sea-food, and fish are the staple foods in the country.
Portuguese is often nicknamed The language of Camões, after the author of the Portuguese national epic The Lusiadas; The last flower of Latium (Olavo Bilac); and The sweet language by Cervantes.
Portuguese is also an official language of the European Union, Mercosul and the African Union (one of the working languages) and one of the official languages of other organizations.
Portuguese is written with the Latin alphabet, and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla, to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes.
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