Search results for "Portuguese language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- adapted to ocean voyaging. Austronesian language–speaking people are present ... The first Europeans to sight the island were the Portuguese in 1511 ...29 KB (4,293 words) - 09:18, 11 March 2023
- neighbors—Southern Rhodesia and the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique ... were not solved. Civil war in the former Portuguese colonies generated an influx ...31 KB (4,520 words) - 05:42, 13 June 2023
- the East African coast. By 1525, the Portuguese had subdued the entire ... English is the official, primary language of commerce, administration ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- Portuguese settlers in 1482, found the present site of Accra occupied ... English is the official language, spoken by up to 36.1 percent (with ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- Hideyoshi tried but failed to hire two Portuguese galleons to join the invasion; ... first introduced 50 years earlier by Portuguese traders in 1543, in Tanegashima ...42 KB (6,114 words) - 09:44, 1 April 2024
- In 1521, a Portuguese force invaded Bahrain to take control of the ... The Portuguese ruled through brutal force for 80 years, until they ...38 KB (5,603 words) - 05:46, 26 August 2023
- referred to as Havana in Dutch, English, and Portuguese. ... and pre-teen refugees. Spanish is the official language. ...29 KB (4,178 words) - 15:02, 25 January 2023
- on the island about 1521–1522 by the Portuguese under João Alvares Fagundes ... day Canadian Gaelic is still the first language of a number of elderly Cape ...26 KB (3,747 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- that it is an adaptation of the current Portuguese name for the animal, onça ... a borrowing from the South American Tupi language to English via Portuguese ...38 KB (5,659 words) - 01:30, 8 February 2023
- long colonization of the New World. Language, music, and cuisine are ... one of two sources: Either the Aymara language lima-limaq (meaning "yellow ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 21:54, 31 January 2024
- the Yoruba derived from the Yoruba language. In Spanish and Portuguese ... merely to describe speakers of the Yoruba language. The first documented use ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved ... of the population speaks an indigenous language, those tongues (of which ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- 7.28% White (mostly British and Portuguese), 5.38% Multiracial (mostly ... Islands for many years, the dominant language has been an English-based ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- After issuing edicts to expel all Portuguese missionaries and traders from Japan in 1639, the Tokugawa shogunate enforced kaikin (海禁, "maritime ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- the conservation of their culture and language, given the traditional predominance ... In terms of first language learned (in infancy), the 2001 census reported ...44 KB (6,520 words) - 21:16, 9 November 2022
- A Mis Amigos (sung in Spanish and [[Portuguese language| Portuguese]]) in 1959, and More Cole Español in 1962. A Mis Amigos ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- Ragusa was one of the centers of Croatian language, literature, and scientific ... The South Slav language was introduced into literature, which flourished ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- from Venezuela. Today, the Trinidadian Portuguese population includes both ... English is the country's only official language, but Bhojpuri ...48 KB (7,150 words) - 17:39, 2 May 2023
- numerous Irish, Italian, German, and Portuguese immigrants, of which the first two groups were totally Catholic, and some Portuguese and Germans ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- theory for the practical needs of Portuguese caravel expeditions. During the Renaissance, Copernicus proposed a heliocentric model of the Solar ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
