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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
- Maldives was dominated by the Portuguese beginning in the mid-1500s ... In 1558, the Portuguese established themselves on Maldives, which ...34 KB (4,966 words) - 06:36, 5 November 2022
- Guaraní tribe (Taylor 2005) comes from the Portuguese guaraná, which has its origins in the Sateré-Maué word warana (Merriam-Webster 2008). ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- to Eastern Africa, united by a common language family (the Bantu languages ... that they must be part of a single language group. This basic thesis ...25 KB (3,899 words) - 07:30, 20 September 2023
- 039;s male population, the Spaniards and Portuguese interbred with the indigenous ... === Language === Rioplatense Spanish or River Plate Spanish (in Spanish ...17 KB (2,604 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- he changed to Deusu from the Latin and Portuguese Deus. The Buddhist monks ... *Bucknell, Roderick, and Martin Stuart-Fox. 1986. The Twilight Language: ...10 KB (1,419 words) - 14:09, 3 May 2023
- from the Romance word casta (seen in Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian) ... colonial Latin America under Spanish and Portuguese rule, Japan, Korea, some ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 14:24, 29 November 2023
- The first circumnavigation of the Cape of Good Hope by Portuguese ... in effect Zulu people because the language they speak is Zulu and they ...35 KB (4,809 words) - 15:13, 27 April 2023
- 14(3) (2006): 285-287 [English with Portuguese abstract]. Brassicaceae ... 23(1) (2006): 202–210. [English with Portuguese abstract]. Retrieved December ...37 KB (5,458 words) - 21:03, 2 December 2023
- influences of Persian art, architecture, language and literature. Subsequently ... east from sporadic conflicts with the Portuguese. While the Mughals had ...33 KB (5,251 words) - 21:14, 11 January 2023
- sea," bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan ... divided into three phases: Spanish and Portuguese; Dutch; and English and French. ...29 KB (4,365 words) - 06:11, 18 November 2022
- is wide enough, Ashkenazi Jews and Spanish and Portuguese Jews tilt the case so that the top slants toward the room the door opens into. This is done ...13 KB (2,058 words) - 16:32, 9 November 2022
- treaty with the sultan of Ternate. The Portuguese brought large quantities ... century. During the monopoly of both the Portuguese and the Dutch, these nations ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- and Calcutta, Chinese from Manila, and Portuguese from Macao. Ibid. During the first half of the nineteenth century, Sulu faced increasing competition ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 21:54, 26 February 2023
- of teaching children in their native language. Instruction occurs in the ... Given that a common language is essential for good communication and ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- 1459 with the final expulsion of the Portuguese. Finally, in 1479, Portugal ... The language of the islands is a dialect of Spanish, known as "Canary ...28 KB (4,064 words) - 19:14, 25 November 2023
- As part of the Portuguese Empire, Brazil inherited the devotion to ... this Yoruba divinity is known in the Portuguese language) is often identified ...36 KB (5,477 words) - 19:38, 22 December 2022
- Dutch is the official language of Suriname, but Sranan Tongo serves ... * Sarnami Hindi is the third largest language of the nation. A form ...30 KB (4,282 words) - 12:07, 17 April 2024
- in Egypt: Arabic Schools and Experimental Language Schools. Arabic Schools ... Hindi and/or the state's official language is also taught.Anuradha ...32 KB (4,665 words) - 18:08, 14 April 2023
- on the continent, along with the Brazil (Portuguese) and Suriname (Dutch) and ... Chinese, and Europeans (mostly British and Portuguese). ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- of cultures brought by African slaves, Portuguese servants and British settlers. ... sugar planters. There is a presence of Portuguese or mixed African-Portuguese ...27 KB (3,940 words) - 06:23, 31 July 2023
- a commercial war existed between the Portuguese holding Goa and Malacca ... and despaired with the difficulty of the language and with the refusal of ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- island. In 1503, Mayotte was observed by Portuguese explorers but not colonized. ... *Shimaore, a dialect of the Comorian language (a close relative of Swahili) ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- local customs). After learning the local language, however, they discovered ... with Europeans, specifically with the Portuguese in Macao, should be reduced ...22 KB (3,410 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Arabic to a number of languages, including Portuguese (romã), and Kabyle rrumman and Maltese "rumen" (Habeeb 2001). According to the ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- linguistic families, as well as a few language isolates. Individual mother ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
- The Reconquista (a Spanish and Portuguese word for "Reconquest ... crusaders. On the other side, using the language associated with jihad (used ...48 KB (7,486 words) - 21:14, 23 July 2022
- as the [http://silp.vassar.edu Self-Instructional Language Program (SILP)] which offers courses in Hindi, Irish/Gaelic, Korean, Portuguese, Swahili, ...12 KB (1,685 words) - 14:40, 3 May 2023
- descent. However, a few Islanders are of French, Portuguese, and Scandinavian descent. Some are the descendants of whalers who reached the Islands during ...25 KB (3,561 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well. The word algebra ... and of the Portuguese word algarismo, both meaning "digit." ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- . The creole used here descends from Portuguese and West African languages ... the Jewish faith, since descendants of a Portuguese group of Sephardic Jews ...29 KB (4,221 words) - 04:34, 11 March 2023
- was a tributary to the Mali Empire. The Portuguese reached the area by sea ... In 1588, the claimant to the Portuguese throne, António, Prior of ...24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- de Língua Portuguesa—Community of Portuguese Language Countries). The only ... co-official recognition (along with Portuguese language) for local matters. ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- The collective title is derived from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas ... Maghribain (“Western Island”). The Portuguese were the first Europeans ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- Thus the island was uninhabited when it was discovered by the Portuguese ... Pitkern is a creole language derived from eighteenth century English ...17 KB (2,562 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- *Levadas, 1350 miles of seventeenth century aqueducts on the Portuguese island of Madeira. *Quabbin Aqueduct, 24.6 miles long tunnel, in Massachusetts ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 15:59, 11 August 2023
- Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian ... The Bengali language, with its long and rich literary tradition, serves ...46 KB (6,448 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- well as the use of Kawi (an old Javanese language) by the aristocracy. ... de Houtman arrived in 1597, though a Portuguese ship had foundered off ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- As of 2000, speakers of Spanish as their first language accounted ... Other languages that were spoken throughout the city include Portuguese ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- Glossolalia (from Greek glossa γλώσσα "tongue, language ... "uttering intelligible words of a language unknown to the speaker, ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 16:54, 17 December 2022
- Arabs referred to it as Serendib; when the Portuguese arrived on the ... has found a correlation of the Sinhalese language with the languages of the ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- Latin, Ukrainian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, and English, other than his native Polish. He also had some facility with ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 03:06, 2 May 2024
- the fifteenth century, which is when the Portuguese first encountered them. ... confined to specified areas. When the Portuguese arrived in the mid-fifteenth ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- Mustafa Jarouche started publishing a thorough Portuguese translation of the work, based on the comparative analysis of a series of different Arabic ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- In 1482, the Portuguese established the first of many trading stations ... boundary, there were groups that shared a language, culture, or other similarity ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- passages and not to interpret all of the language literally. ... be contained in any finite vessel or language. Scripture has been written ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- marisco, French bouillabaisse, Italian cacciucco, Portuguese caldeirada and many other seafood dishes. Shrimp are marketed according to size ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 20:04, 21 April 2023
- sailors as early as the tenth century. Portuguese sailors first visited it ... The official language is English, the language of all government documents ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- some 4000 years ago. In 1605, the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernández ... on matters concerning Ni-Vanuatu culture and language. Since 1994, ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- interested in the relationships between language, literature, and society ... into Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and German. * The Long Revolution ...22 KB (3,118 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- (including French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese), which are descended from Latin, retain the old Roman name of Terra or some variation thereof ...37 KB (5,416 words) - 07:49, 24 November 2022
- **Kionga Triangle, since 1920 (earlier occupied) in Portuguese Mozambique ... space secured German as a major European language but it did not spread across ...17 KB (2,331 words) - 05:35, 5 December 2022
- Hindustani, Hindi, Jamaican Patois, Portuguese, Chinese, Levantine Arabic ... Jamaica's language of government and education is English, although ...31 KB (4,663 words) - 01:31, 8 February 2023
- paraguai.htm Guerra do Paraguai]. (Portuguese Language). Meu Artigo. Conhecendo o Portal Sua Pesquisa]. (Portuguese Language). Sua Pesquisa. ...35 KB (5,486 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
- any foreigner of a different culture and language background. While it did ... " The word comes from the Greek language, and was used to connote ...20 KB (3,041 words) - 22:32, 10 February 2023
- Aristotelianism has made an indelible contribution to the language ... Scipion Dupleis, and the scholars of the Portuguese Comibra school formed a ...18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
- Japanese and Persians, and later the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and French ... Composed in Pali, an Indo-Aryan language closely related to Sanskrit ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- Full of obscure references and verbose language, the poem became something ... in his wife's Sonnets from the Portuguese—is generally considered ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- In 1444, the Portuguese arrived on the island of Gorée and founded ... The island was to switch hands between the Portuguese and Dutch several ...23 KB (3,372 words) - 08:41, 24 January 2024
- were eventually sold as slaves to Portuguese traders and dispersed to ... * Neves, Jaime Ramalhete. "The Portuguese in the Im-Jim War? ...32 KB (4,655 words) - 22:08, 8 February 2023
- "thug" entering the English language. Ameer Ali, the protagonist ... * Francisco Luís Gomes's novel (in Portuguese language), Os ...16 KB (2,481 words) - 17:24, 18 April 2023
- came in the late fifteenth century with Portuguese explorations, and commercial ... Languages used include French, the official language, Lingala and ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 22:54, 20 November 2023
- See also: French India, Portuguese India In the 1950s, France still ... The Portuguese surrendered on December 19, and 3,000 Portuguese soldiers ...40 KB (5,861 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- cachalot. The word cachalot is originally Portuguese (cachalote), probably coming from cachola, a colloquial term for "head." Sperm whales were ...27 KB (4,253 words) - 15:20, 27 April 2023
- and architectural innovations.Portuguese travelers Barbosa, Barradas ... and irrigation.From the notes of Portuguese Nuniz. Robert Sewell notes ...55 KB (7,789 words) - 20:20, 3 May 2023
- During WWII, Quine lectured on logic in Brazil, in Portuguese, and ... papers on ontology, epistemology and language, he emerged as a major philosopher ...34 KB (5,037 words) - 15:37, 6 May 2023
- Bijapur repulsed an invasion by the Portuguese against the city of Goa ... architecture. The development of Dakhani language stands out as an important ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 09:00, 28 January 2024
- of Sephardic Jews, among the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam in 1632 ... this end composed part of a grammar of the Hebrew language. ...28 KB (4,336 words) - 11:00, 20 September 2023
- " The conquest of Malacca by the Portuguese in 1511 meant Brunei benefited ... The Portuguese were more interested in trade and did little to interfere ...30 KB (4,444 words) - 04:42, 22 November 2023
- to the European powers, first the Portuguese, later the British. The ... Arabic is the official language, although English is increasingly ...19 KB (2,883 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- it has very sizable enclaves of different language speaking communities. Some ... * Portuguese--spoken throughout the entire state, but Brazilian Portuguese ...34 KB (4,973 words) - 09:22, 11 March 2023
- to "break apart" the German language, and as his style matured ... who insisted that German be the language spoken in their house. After ...19 KB (3,103 words) - 16:50, 21 November 2022
- politics, and history than in the law. His native language was French, and he also read Greek, Latin, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and, with ...18 KB (2,651 words) - 05:02, 7 May 2024
- John in Central Asia, and eventually Portuguese explorers convinced themselves ... Ethiopian emperor Lebna Dengel and the Portuguese had established diplomatic ...29 KB (4,428 words) - 22:39, 30 November 2022
- Khoikhoi. They have a remarkably complex language characterized by the use ... "outsider" in the Khoikhoi language, and was derogatory.[http://itre ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 18:49, 22 November 2023
- quot; (Spanish Reducciones, Portuguese Reduções). These were ... de Iapam, (Vocabulary of the Japanese Language) a Japanese-Portuguese dictionary ...45 KB (6,894 words) - 21:50, 30 January 2023
- The Portuguese landed in southern Kyushu, Japan, in 1543 and within ... travel outside of Japan or return. The Portuguese were restricted to Deshima ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- with finding the islands was the Portuguese maritime explorer (serving ... Although English is the official language, there are two indigenous ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- words, which led to a renaissance of the language. Other measures included ... German, and Luxembourgish, a Franconian language of the Moselle region similar ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- sets a core curriculum consisting of Portuguese, History, Geography, Science ... school, basic information, Turkish language, Mathematics, Sciences, ...23 KB (3,445 words) - 10:17, 21 January 2023
- 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
