One of the five major Romance languages — along with Spanish, Italian, French, and Romanian — Portuguese has constantly expanded its reach ever since it started off as a provincial dialect of Latin ...

THE two dozen old men playing cards in the parish hall in Serafina Corrêa, a small town in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, seem unremarkable until you eavesdrop. They banter not in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract For centuries authors have sought to evoke orality through a variety of techniques, generically known as literary dialect, aiming at capturing ...

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Portuguese language surged as a Romance tongue, spreading its roots globally as Portugal forged the pioneering and most enduring colonial and commercial empire in ...

With influences ranging from Portuguese, Dutch, Malay dialects, modern-day English and many other languages, Indonesian language, or Bahasa Indonesia, has a uniquely dynamic history. The Portuguese ...