Brazilian Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese: português brasileiro or português do Brasil ; pt-BR) is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by virtually all the almost 200 million inhabitants (2009) of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan and Paraguay. Roughly speaking, the differences between European Portuguese and standard Brazilian Portuguese are comparable to th... more

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