Portuguese is an adjective referring to matters related to Portugal Portugal /ˈpɔɹtʃʉɡəl/ (Portuguese: Portugal, Mirandese: Pertual), officially the Portuguese Republic (Portuguese: República Portuguesa; Mirandese: República Pertuesa), is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and. It may refer to:
- Portuguese language Portuguese ( português or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated from a fusion of the dialect spoken in what is now Galicia and northern Portugal with closely related dialects spoken in territories to the south which had not yet been reconquered by the Christians to the Arabs by the time Portugal was born as a Christian kingdom, natively spoken in Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, East Timor and other countries, including all the Portuguese dialects Portuguese dialects are variants of the Portuguese language that are shared by a substantial number of speakers over several generations, but are not sufficiently distinct from the official norms to be considered separate languages. The differences between Portuguese dialects are mostly in phonology, in the frequency of usage of certain
- Portuguese people 1st row: Afonso I • St. Anthony • Álvares Pereira • Vasco da Gama , the people of Portugal
See also
- All pages beginning with "Portuguese"
- Sonnets from the Portuguese Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of forty-four love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The poems largely chronicle the period leading up to her 1846 marriage to Robert Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular even in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today
- Portuguese hymn "Adeste Fideles" is a hymn tune attributed to John Francis Wade. The text itself has unclear beginnings, and may have been written in the 13th century, though it has been concluded that Wade was probably the author
- Lusofonia
- Lusitania Lusitania was an ancient Roman province including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the Douro river and part of modern Spain (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a small part of the province of Salamanca). It was named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people (an Indo-European people). Its capital was Emerita Augusta (
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