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Brazilian Portuguese is a dialect of the Portuguese language. It is different enough from the dialect of Portugal that a speaker of one does not easily understand a speaker of the other. It has 210 million speakers (87% of the Portuguese speakers).

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Since the inauguration of the United Nations, the Brazilian president has delivered his first speech, before all the presidents of the world. The Portuguese language is spoken in the first place since the inauguration of the United Nations. In 2019, Brazilian President Bolsonaro speaks at the United Nations in Portuguese.
Portuguese world including Brazil, Portugal, etc.
Opening of the 15th Conference of Ministers of Justice of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries in 2017. Former Brazilian president Michel Temer with former Brazilian justice minister Torquato Jardim.
A Portuguese to English interpreter and an English to Portuguese interpreter were used at the Mar-a-Lago meeting in 2020, the official residence of U.S. President Donald Trump. In all meetings outside the Portuguese language, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro uses interpreters as in public he only speaks Portuguese.
2017 Debate on the Portuguese language in the Senate of Brazil.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
2014 Interactive public hearing to debate the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement in Brasília.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Salvador.
Bronze bust of Renaissance poet Luís de Camões in Rio de Janeiro.
Chandelier decorating the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Inside the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Recife.
Entrance of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Recife.
Inside of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Portals of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Entrance of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Salvador.
1st Strategic Management Meeting of the Association of Secretaries-General of Portuguese-Speaking Parliaments of 2016, in Brasília.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Portuguese tiles in Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Salvador.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
In Brasília, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate jointly hold the "2017 Meeting of Management, Finance and Human Resources Staff" of the Association of Secretaries-General of Portuguese-speaking Parliaments with the aim of sharing experiences and work models related to organizational and administrative management in parliaments, human resources management, planning and financial management in the legislature, among other matters relevant to the topic. The event has the presence of representatives from all Portuguese-speaking countries.
Statue of the Portuguese Infant Dom Henrique at the entrance of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Books on the Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Portuguese books in the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Entrance of the Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Glazing in the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Gold details in the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Members of the First Strategic Management Meeting of the Association of Secretaries-General of Portuguese-Speaking Parliaments participate in a dinner in 2016, in Brasília.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Portuguese immigrants arriving in Rio de Janeiro.
Senate of Brazil committee room during a meeting of the Education, Culture and Sport Committee in 2014. The committee holds a public hearing to discuss the Orthographic Agreement for the Portuguese Language, signed in 1990 and implemented in January 2016. The new rules must apply for the eight countries that have Portuguese as an official language, including Brazil, Portugal, etc.
Library of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Salvador.
Statue of the Portuguese Poet Luís de Camões at the entrance of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Entrance of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro at night.
Library of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Salvador.
Brazilian flag and Portuguese flag in the front of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Bronze bust of Portuguese Carlos I of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Internal architecture of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Bronze bust of Portuguese Eduardo Lemos in Rio de Janeiro.
Interior of Santa Isabel Theater in Recife.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
The Senate of Brazil preserves the books that record presidential inaugurations since 1891. By signing the book, the president-elect assumes the commitment to govern the country and defend the Constitution, continuing the timeline that has been traced since February 26, 1891. Access to the two volumes is restricted in order to protect the heritage. The documents are kept in the Senate Archives, in a room with temperature, humidity and light subject to strict parameters. Organized in two volumes by the Archive Coordination, these documents testify to the historical evolution of the Portuguese language, based on elements such as the successive loss of archaisms. This cover book shows: "Term of Inauguration of the Presidents of the Republic of the United States of Brazil." When "United States" of Brazil was still used with the letter Z, and not Brasil with the letter S.
Portuguese descendants in Santos.
Variants and sociolects of Brazilian Portuguese.
Linguistic map of the state of Minas Gerais, according to the scientific study Esboço de um Atlas Linguístico de Minas Gerais (EALMG), "Draft of a Linguistic Atlas for Minas Gerais". Federal University of Juiz de Fora, 1977. The red zone speaks mineiro, the yellow zone caipira, the blue zone baiano.
Portuguese immigrants arriving in Rio de Janeiro.
Percentage of worldwide Portuguese speakers per country.
Bust of the Portuguese Pedro Álvares Cabral in Rio de Janeiro.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Library of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Rio de Janeiro.
Entrance of the Real Gabinete Português de Leitura in Salvador.
Municipal Theatre of São Paulo is a theatre in São Paulo.
Wikipedia em Português. A enciclopédia livre.
Brazilian Portuguese variants.
Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo.
Orthographic Vocabulary of the Portuguese Language of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

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