Search results for "Portuguese language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- by ethnic groups using a click-tongue language similar to that of southern ... origin that held ascendancy until the Portuguese destroyed it in the early 1500s. ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- in Japan began in 1549, carried out by Portuguese-sponsored Jesuits and later ... interested in the weapons brought by Portuguese traders and open to the ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- closest to Argentina. It shares a common language and many social customs ... quot; comes from Guaraní the language, meaning "river of ...30 KB (4,199 words) - 13:47, 3 May 2023
- coastal area. The capital is Porto-Novo (Portuguese for New Port), which is ... 1886 (cropped).jpg|thumb|400px|The Portuguese Empire was the longest ...19 KB (2,686 words) - 19:41, 27 September 2023
- in the sixteenth century, when the Portuguese arrived in the area and ... Bombay holds that it was derived from a Portuguese name meaning good bay. ...39 KB (5,723 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- South America and are known as araras in Portuguese and guacamayos in Spanish. ... ==Speech and language learning== As with many species of parrots, macaws ...13 KB (1,794 words) - 10:43, 9 March 2023
- The word baroque is derived from the ancient Portuguese noun "barroco ... It is a French translation of the Portuguese phrase "pérola barroca ...30 KB (4,617 words) - 10:52, 20 September 2023
- the Kongo Kingdom, which encountered the Portuguese in 1484. Trading contracts ... The Portuguese did not venture into the interior but bought goods ...23 KB (3,296 words) - 19:42, 16 April 2023
- , the Persian shambe, Spanish and Portuguese Sábado, the Greek Savato, the Russian "subbota" (суббота) and the Italian word ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- During the Age of Exploration, the Portuguese Empire was the first ... with distinctive features, and a language derived in part from Arabic ...19 KB (2,660 words) - 05:43, 13 June 2023
- and hence, the local people and their language is referred to as Cantonese ... the South China Sea, particularly the Portuguese and British, traded extensively ...24 KB (3,310 words) - 02:43, 5 March 2023
- where his shrine still stands. His native language was Old Tati (Āzarī), ... Safavids. During his reign, the official language at the royal court was Azerbaijanian ...23 KB (3,547 words) - 18:36, 22 December 2022
- including works in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French ... They speak Soqotri, an unwritten Semitic language related to other Modern ...22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
- The Portuguese communist secretary-general Álvaro Cunhal is believed to have been the only political leader from western Europe to have supported ...17 KB (2,531 words) - 22:12, 30 November 2022
- the European colonial powers: first the Portuguese, who captured Melaka in ... and settled in Malaysia and some Portuguese. Most of the Middle Easterners ...33 KB (4,723 words) - 14:30, 29 March 2024
- A word is a basic element of language that carries an objective or ... a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of language that has a meaning, even ...33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
- The first European fleet, four Portuguese ships from Malacca, arrived ... In 1522, another Portuguese named Enrique Leme visited Sunda with ...29 KB (4,012 words) - 08:43, 18 March 2024
- Cochin, and Cochi. Occupied by the Portuguese in 1503, Kochi became the ... After the arrival of the Portuguese, and later the British, the name ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- contact began in the 1500s, when Portuguese sea captain Diego Dias ... three official languages. The Malagasy language is of Malayo-Polynesian ...13 KB (1,867 words) - 05:19, 31 July 2023
- Juan de Bermudez. Both Spanish and Portuguese ships used the islands ... Some years later, a Portuguese ship on the way home from San Domingo ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
