Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro or português do Brasil; pt-BR) is the group of dialects of the Portuguese language written and spoken by virtually all of the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, Paraguay, Japan, Portugal, and Argentina.
Some authors compare the differences between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese to those found between British a...
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Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro or português do Brasil; pt-BR) is the group of dialects of the Portuguese language written and spoken by virtually all of the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, Paraguay, Japan, Portugal, and Argentina.
Some authors compare the differences between Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese to those found between British and American English, while others see the differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese as greater or much greater. The differences in the spoken language are much more pronounced than the differences in the formal written language. As many as 1% of the words are different and limited mainly to flora, fauna, foods, etc. As with many languages, the differences between standard Brazilian Portuguese and its informal vernacular are marked, though lexicon and most of the grammar rules remain the same. Nonetheless, there are still scientific...
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