葡萄牙语

在马来西亚 的麻六甲, there is a Portuguese creole known as Cristao or Papia Kristang still spoken by some of the Eurasian population. There are also active Portuguese creoles, 尤其在 印度 和斯里兰卡. In Japan, Portuguese is spoken by Brazilians of Japanese descent, known as dekassegui, who number approximately 250,000 people.

在东帝汶, the most spoken language is Tetum, an Austronesian language, but it has been heavily influenced by Portuguese. The reintroduction of Portuguese as an official language has caused suspicion and resentment among some younger East Timorese who have been educated under the Indonesian system, and do not speak it.虽然葡文的比例在于东帝汶政府对年轻一代的教育之下即有兴趣的成年人，葡文在东帝汶的占有率少于20%，且大部分的组成份子为老一代的东帝汶人。East Timor asked the other CPLP nations to help it to reintroduce Portuguese as an official language. East Timor uses Portuguese to link itself to a larger international community and to differentiate itself from Indonesia. Xanana Gusmao, president of East Timor, believes that Portuguese will be widely spoken again within 10 years.

官方地位

The CPLP or Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries is an international organization consisting of the eight independent countries which have Portuguese as an official language. Portuguese is also an official language of the European Union, Mercosul and the African Union (one of the working languages) and one of the official languages of other organizations. Except for the Asian territories (East Timor and Macau), Portuguese is the sole official language in each country.

方言

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Portuguese language speakers do not understand their dialects as "dialects", but as "accents" (Port. sotaques) or even pronunciation (Port. pronuncia), even if in different countries, but especially within the same. Mostly because the term "dialect" has been used to classify a language without prestige.

Standard European Portuguese has changed more than the other varieties. Still, all aspects and sounds of all Portuguese (nation) dialects can be found in some Brazilian (nation) dialect. African Portuguese especially Sao Tomean Portuguese has many similarities with Brazilian Portuguese, also Southern Portugal dialects presents many similarities, especially, the excessive use of the geround. In Europe, Alto-Minhoto and Transmontano are very similar to Galician.

Even with independence of the former African colonies, the standard Portuguese of Portugal is still the preferred standard for the African Portuguese countries. Thus, Portuguese has only two learning accent standards, the European and the Brazilian. Note that: in Portuguese there are four preferred accents: Coimbra's, Lisbon's, Rio de Janeiro's and Sao Paulo's and these four influence most other dialects.

主要的葡萄牙语方言：

巴西葡萄牙语方言

巴西

1. Caipira — not actually a particular regional dialect, this term roughly means "rustic" or "yokel" and is sometimes used to refer to the way people from the countryside or from some regions of agricultural background speak (eg. Goias, Minas Gerais); some people might find the term offensive
2. Cearense — 塞阿腊州
3. Baiano — Region of 巴伊亚州
4. Fluminense (listen) — 里约热内卢州 和 圣埃斯皮里图州 (the city of Rio de Janeiro has a particular way of speaking)
5. Gaucho — 南里奥格兰德州
6. Mineiro — 米纳斯吉拉斯州
7. Nordestino (listen) — northeastern states of Brazil (the interior area and Recife have particular ways of speaking)
8. Nortista — Amazon Basin states
9. Paulistano — 圣保罗市
10. Sertao — 戈亚斯州 和 马托格罗索州
11. Sulista — 巴西南部

葡萄牙葡萄牙语

葡萄牙

1. Acoriano (听) — 亚速群岛
2. Alentejano (听) — 阿连特茹
3. Algarvio (听) — 阿尔加维 (there is a particular small dialect in the western area)
4. Alto-Minhoto (听) — 布拉加北部 (内陆)
5. Baixo-Beirao; Alto-Alentejano (listen) — 葡萄牙中部(内陆)
6. Beirao (听) — 葡萄牙中部
7. Estremenho (听) — 科英布拉区和里斯本 (can be subdivided in Lisbon Portuguese and Coimbra Portuguese)
8. Madeirense (听) — 马德拉群岛
9. Nortenho (听) — 布拉加区和波尔图
10. Transmontano (听) Tras-os-Montes

安哥拉

1. Benguelense — 本吉拉省
2. Luandense (听) — 罗安达省
3. Sulista — 安哥拉南部

安哥拉葡萄牙语

其他地区

• Caboverdiano (听) — 佛得角
• Guineense (听) — 几内亚比绍
• Macaense (听) — 中国澳门
• Mocambicano (听) — 莫桑比克
• Santomense (听) — 圣多美及普林西比
• Timorense (听) — 东帝汶
• 加里西亚语 — 加利西亚, 西班牙

不同大洲各异的葡萄牙语：安哥拉（非洲）、葡萄牙（欧洲）和巴西（南美洲）。

走开

• 安哥拉: bazar, ir embora
• 巴西: ir embora, (or "vazar" as a slang);
• 葡萄牙: ir embora, (or bazar among teenagers);

巴士

• 安哥拉: machimbombo
• 巴西: onibus
• 葡萄牙: autocarro

slum quarter

• 安哥拉: muceque
• 巴西: favela
• 葡萄牙: bairro de lata

衍生语言

参见: 克里奥尔语

Portugal in the period of discoveries and colonization created a linguistic contact with native languages and people of the discovered lands and thus pidgins were formed. Until the 18th century, these Portuguese pidgins were used as Lingua Franca in Asia and Africa. Later, the Portuguese pidgins were expanded grammatically and lexically, as it became a native language. These creoles are spoken, mostly, by inter-racial communities (Portuguese people with natives).

佛得角:

• Crioulo Barlavento (Criol)
• Crioulo Sotavento (Kriolu)

赤道几内亚:

• Falar de Ano Bom

几内亚比绍及塞内加尔:

• Crioulo da Guine (Kriol)

印度:

• Creole of Diu
• Creole of Vaipim
• Kristi
• Lingua da Casa

中国澳门:

• Macaista

马来西亚, 新加坡:

• Papia Kristang

Netherlands Antilles and Aruba:

• Papiamento

圣多美及普林西比:

• Angolar
• Forro
• Lunguye

斯里兰卡:

• Burgher

苏里南:

• Saramacano

Some hybrid dialects came to exist after an interaction with 西班牙语:

• A Fala — 西班牙
• Barranquenho — 葡萄牙
• Gallego — 西班牙 (The official variety, Galicians name it "Castrapo")
• Portunol — 乌拉圭, 巴拉圭, 巴西 和 阿根廷

Sounds

Main article: Portuguese sounds

葡萄牙语之所以特别吸引语言学家的地方在于其语音结构的复杂。这种语言拥有9个元音、5个鼻化元音和25个辅音。另外，葡萄牙语是一种“无重音语言”，因此，即使是在同一种方言中也存在着截然不同的发音。

元音

鼻元音

半元音

辅音

语法

Main articles: 葡萄牙语语法 — Personal pronouns — Verbs conjugation

Verbs are divided into three conjugations, which can be identified by looking at the infinitive ending, one of "-ar", "-er", "-ir" (and "-or", irregular verbs). Most verbs ends with "-ar", such as cantar (to sing). All verbs with the same ending follow the same patern.

In Portuguese, verbs are divided into moods:

• Imperative. Used to express a wish, command or advice
• Indicative. Used to express a fact
• Subjective. Used to express a wish or a possibility

All Portuguese nouns have one of two genders: masculine or inclusive and feminine or exclusive. Most adjectives and pronouns, and all articles indicate the gender of the noun they reference. The feminine gender in adjectives is formed in a different way to that in nouns. Most adjectives ending in a consonant remain unchanged: homem superior (superior man), mulher superior (superior woman). This is also true for adjectives ending in "e": homem forte(strong man), mulher forte(strong woman). Except for this, the noun and the adjective must always be in agreement.

词汇

Since Portuguese is a Romance language, most of the language comes from Latin. However, other languages that have come into contact with Portuguese have left their mark.

Pre-Roman origin words

Very few traces of the native (Lusitanians, Conii, or Calicians) or pre-Roman settlers like the Phoenicians, Carthaginians or Celts lexicon persist in the language, but there are some exceptions, most are unconfirmed. Many places in Portugal, have pre-Roman names, such has the name of the cities of Braga and Coimbra and the rivers Minho and Tamega.

Native Iberian:

• Abobora (pumpkin)
• Bezerro (year-old calf)
• Louca (claw)
• Manteiga (butter)
• Sapo (frog)

Celtic:

• Cabana (hut)
• Cama (bed)
• Camisa (shirt)
• Carvalho(oak)
• Cerveja (beer)
• Touca (headress)

Phoenician:

• Malha (mesh)
• Mapa (map)
• Saco (bag)

From Latin to Portuguese

Portuguese, both in morphology and syntax, represents an organic transformation of Latin without the direct intervention of any foreign language. The sounds, grammatical forms, and syntactical types, with a few exceptions, are derived from Latin. And almost 90% of the vocabulary is still derived from the language of Rome. Some of the changes began during the Empire, others took place later. Since Portuguese was reinfluenced by it (reinfluence represented with 1), many original words are still familiar to Portuguese speakers.

N.B.: In the Latin examples below, we have used all-capitals so as to be in line with how the ancient language was actually written. Note also that the letter V was the vowel we know today as U, and that the C was always pronounced /k/, so CENTV was pronounced /kentu/ (the derived Cento in Portuguese is pronunced as /se~tu/).

Nasalization — A vowel before [m] and [n] has a tendency to become a nasal vowel, this occurs in many languages. In the case of Portuguese, it happened between the sixth and seventh centuries. This change sharply distinguishes Portuguese from Spanish, in which it did not occur.

• LVNA > l[ũ]a > Lua (moon).

Palatalization — Another assimilation occurs before the high vowels [i] and [e], or near the semi-vowel, or palatal [j].

• CENTV > [tj]ento > [ts]ento > cento, (hundred)
• FACERE > fa[tj]ere > fa[ts]er > fa[dz]er > fazer, (to do)
• A more ancient evolution was FORTIA > for[ts]a > forca (strength)

Elision — Simultaneous influence in a consonant by vowels, occurring a sintagmatic chain.

• DOLORE > door > dor (pain) — dolorido¹ (in pain)
• BONV > boo > bom, (good)
• ANELLV > aelo > elo (Ring) — Anel¹ (hand ring)

Voicing — some consonants did not disappear but rather evolved:

• MUTV > mudo (deaf)
• LACV > lago (lake)
• FABA > fava (broadbean)

Simplification of consonant clusters, especially doubled vowels, occurred:

• GVTTA > gota (drop)
• PECCARE > pecar (to sin)

Dissimilation — Modification of a sound by the influence of neighbouring sounds.

• Dissimilation between vowels:
  • LOCVSTA > lagosta (lobster)
  • CAMPANA > campaa > campa (tomb)
• Dissimilation between consonants:
  • MEMORARE > nembrar > lembrar (to remember) — Memorizar¹ (to memorize)
  • ANIMA > alma (soul) — Animado¹ (livened up)
  • LOCALE > logar > lugar (place) — local¹ (place)

Some other alterations were semi-vowel metathesis: PRIMARIV becomes primeiro (Eng. first); consonant metathesis in [l] and [r] are rare in Portuguese (e.g. TENEBRAS > teevras > trevas, Eng. darkness); and epenthesis, where there is not a total assimilation by adding new sounds. Such as for wine: Vulgar Latin: VINO, medieval Portuguese Vi~o, Modern Portuguese (since 14th or 15th centuries): Vinho. However, the sound of medieval Portuguese is still alive in some Portuguese dialects of Brazil and Sao Tome and Principe. Another specially relevant shift was the loss of the intervocalic /l/ in a very large set of words, already described in the list above as an example of "elision" → e.g: SALIRE > sair; COLARE > coar; NOTVLA > nodoa, with the typical portuguese voicing of /t/ in /d/ (AMATVS > amado). Fewer words remaned unchanged, such as Taberna (tavern).

Germanic origin words

The Germanic influence in Portuguese was small restricted to warfare and cloths used in war. The influence also exists in placenames such has Ermesinde and Esposende, where sinde and sende are derived from the Germanic "sinths" (military expedition).

• Barao (baron) from Germanic baro
• Ganhar (to win) from Germanic waidanjan
• Guerra (war) from Gothic *wirro
• Roubar (to rob) from Germanic raubon
• Saga (Saga) from Gothic saega

Arabic origin words

Projections indicate 1000 Arabic loan words. In old Portuguese this represented 25% of the used lexicon, today its importance decreased has the language became richer and reinfluenced by Greek, Latin and other languages.

• Alcova (Alcove) from alkubba
• Aldeia (village) from aldaya
• Alface (lettuce) from alkhass
• Algarismo (algarism, number) from alkarizmi
• Almirante (admiral) from amir + ar-rahl
• Almofada (cushion) from almukhadda
• Ambar (amber) from anbar
• Armazem (warehouse) from almahazan (see "magazine")
• Arroz (rice) from arruz (loan from Greek oryza)
• Azeite (olive oil) from azzait
• Garrafa (bottle) from garrafa (see "caraff")
• Girafa (giraffe) from zurafa
• Jasmim (jasmin) from Persian jasamin
• Jarra (jar) from jarra
• Xadrez (Chess) from shatranj (loan from Sanscrit chaturanga)
• Xerife (sheriff) from sharif

Asian, Amerindian and African origin Words

With the Portuguese discoveries a linguistic contact was made, and Portuguese language became influenced by other languages other than European or Arabic. Many placenames and local animals have Amerindian names in Brazil, in Angola and Mozambique, the same occurs with the local Bantu languages.

Asian:

• Catana (cutlass) from Japanese Katana
• Cha (Tea), from Chinese cha
• Corja (rabble) from Malay korchchu
• Ramarrao (routinous sound), from Hindu Rama-Rama
• Manga (mango), from Malay mangga

Amerindian:

• Ananas (a pineapple species) from Tupi-Guarani nana
• Abacaxi (another pineapple species) from Tupi iba + cati
• Jaguar (jaguar) from Tupi-Guarani jaguara
• Tatu (armadillo) from Guarani tatu
• Tucano (toucan) from Guarani tucan

Sub-saharan Africa:

• Banana (banana) from Wolof
• Bungular (to dance like African wizards) from Kimbundu kubungula
• Chimpanze (chimpanzee) from Bantu
• Cabiri (small domestic animal) from Kimbundu kabiribiri
• Cafune (affections made in the head) from Kimbundu kifumate

Writing system

Main article: Portuguese alphabet

Portuguese is written using the Latin alphabet with 26 letters. Three of them (K, W and Y) are only used for non-Portuguese origin words, in terms like darwinismo (Darwinism, from English "Darwin"). It uses c and acute, grave, circumflex and tilde accents over vowels, as well as, in some forms and only in Brazil, diaeresis on a U as in linguistica (Linguistics, linguistica is used in the rest of the Portuguese speaking nations).

Written varieties

Until the Ortographic Agreement is established, Portuguese has two written varieties, but Portuguese speakers prefer to name them as Padroes (Eng. Standards):

• European and African Portuguese
• Brazilian Portuguese

The differences between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese varieties are in vocabulary, pronunciation and syntax, especially in popular varieties, while between upper-class Brazilians these differences ease largely. The differences are somewhat less than those between American English and British English.

Some apparent differences between the two varieties in lexicon are not really differences. In Brazil, the common term for carpet is tapete. And, in Portugal, alcatifa. However, many dialectal zones in Portugal uses tapete and other areas in Brazil uses alcatifa. This applies in almost all such apparent differences, except in the new terms, such as onibus in Brazil, that is Autocarro in Portugal.

In Brazil most first "c" when "cc", "cc" or "ct"; and "p" when "pc", "pc" or "pt" from the language were eliminated since they are not pronounced in the cultivated spoken language, a remnant from the language's Latin origin (some continue to exist in cultivated Brazilian Portuguese, some more in the European).

Also, there are differences in accent marks, due to:

1. Different pronunciation. Brazil in words such as "Antonio" (Anthony) or "anonimo" (anonimous) uses close vowels, where Portugal and Africa uses open ones, "Antonio" or "anonimo", respectively. In the case of Africa, it is mostly due that the European Portuguese is preferred standard.
2. Easy reading. Because "qu" can be read in two different ways in Portuguese: "ku" or "k", Brazil decided to facilitate it, using the diaeresis. Insted of "cinquenta" they write "cinquenta".

A Spelling Reform (Port. Reforma Ortografica), written in 1990, will create an International Portuguese Standard, and it was ratified by Brazil, Cape Verde and Portugal. East Timor, not an original subscriber, will ratify shortly along with Guinea-Bissau. East Timor was the biggest supporter for a fast implementation and pressured CPLP. The agreement's Implementation date is not yet set.

At first, the Agreement established that its entrance into practice would only occur when all the countries of the CPLP had ratified it. But the African countries of Portuguese language have not ratified, possibly due to problems in implementing it. In the CPLP’s summit of 26–27 July 2004, an adjustment will prompt implementation in Brazil, Cape Verde and Portugal and its use can also be done in the other countries. The agreement will eliminate most "c" when "cc", "cc" or "ct"; and "p" when "pc", "pc" or "pt" from European Portuguese, the dieresis and accent marks in words ending in "eia" in Brazil and added some new minor spelling rules. And will accept dual accentuation in words like anonimo or anonimo, now depending on a person's accent.

Another agreement was made for the new words that will enter in the language.

参看

• List of tongue-twisters
• saudade — One of the ten non-English words that were voted hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company
• English as she is spoke
• Portuguese in the United States

文学

Main articles: 葡语文学 — Camoens Prize

To English speakers, the most famous writer in the Portuguese language is the poet Luís Vaz de Camoes or Luís Vaz Camoens (1524–June 10, 1580), author of the epic poem, the Lusiad.

Several other authors and poets are also internationally known, such as: Eça de Queirós (1845–1900), the most famous Portuguese language novelist; Fernando Pessoa (1888—1935), one of the greatest poets in the language's history; Jorge Amado (1912—2001), a popular novelist; and José Saramago (born 1922) who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998.

注释

• [1] First and Second with first language speakers, respectively. Only counting figures from countries in the table "Portuguese language countries and Territories". Considering second language speakers those people who are bilingual and use Portuguese as a second language.
• [2] Galicia is only included as a Portuguese language territory since many linguists understand both languages has being co-dialects. The government of Galicia regards Galician as a separate language.
• [3] A Fala is not recognized by the Spanish authorities to be a Portuguese dialect, although there have been attempts to consider it Galician, but the locals do not want to use the Galician orthography. A Fala differs very little from the neighbouring Portuguese dialect on the other side of the border, but it will probably be recognized (if it will be) as a separate language.