Search results for "Portuguese language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- a great impact on mathematics, but on language as well. The word algebra ... and of the Portuguese word algarismo, both meaning "digit." ...22 KB (3,234 words) - 17:58, 10 November 2022
- . The creole used here descends from Portuguese and West African languages ... the Jewish faith, since descendants of a Portuguese group of Sephardic Jews ...29 KB (4,221 words) - 04:34, 11 March 2023
- was a tributary to the Mali Empire. The Portuguese reached the area by sea ... In 1588, the claimant to the Portuguese throne, António, Prior of ...24 KB (3,469 words) - 15:37, 30 April 2023
- The collective title is derived from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas ... Maghribain (“Western Island”). The Portuguese were the first Europeans ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- de Língua Portuguesa—Community of Portuguese Language Countries). The only ... co-official recognition (along with Portuguese language) for local matters. ...88 KB (12,576 words) - 00:25, 12 April 2023
- Thus the island was uninhabited when it was discovered by the Portuguese ... Pitkern is a creole language derived from eighteenth century English ...17 KB (2,562 words) - 06:19, 24 November 2022
- well as the use of Kawi (an old Javanese language) by the aristocracy. ... de Houtman arrived in 1597, though a Portuguese ship had foundered off ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 05:53, 26 August 2023
- *Levadas, 1350 miles of seventeenth century aqueducts on the Portuguese island of Madeira. *Quabbin Aqueduct, 24.6 miles long tunnel, in Massachusetts ...12 KB (1,676 words) - 15:59, 11 August 2023
- Glossolalia (from Greek glossa γλώσσα "tongue, language ... "uttering intelligible words of a language unknown to the speaker, ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 17:42, 23 May 2024
- Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian ... The Bengali language, with its long and rich literary tradition, serves ...46 KB (6,448 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- As of 2000, speakers of Spanish as their first language accounted ... Other languages that were spoken throughout the city include Portuguese ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- Arabs referred to it as Serendib; when the Portuguese arrived on the ... has found a correlation of the Sinhalese language with the languages of the ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- Latin, Ukrainian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, and English, other than his native Polish. He also had some facility with ...28 KB (4,343 words) - 03:06, 2 May 2024
- the fifteenth century, which is when the Portuguese first encountered them. ... confined to specified areas. When the Portuguese arrived in the mid-fifteenth ...33 KB (4,780 words) - 14:52, 4 April 2024
- Mustafa Jarouche started publishing a thorough Portuguese translation of the work, based on the comparative analysis of a series of different Arabic ...16 KB (2,579 words) - 15:31, 30 April 2023
- passages and not to interpret all of the language literally. ... be contained in any finite vessel or language. Scripture has been written ...34 KB (5,277 words) - 00:19, 8 January 2024
- In 1482, the Portuguese established the first of many trading stations ... boundary, there were groups that shared a language, culture, or other similarity ...46 KB (6,657 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- sailors as early as the tenth century. Portuguese sailors first visited it ... The official language is English, the language of all government documents ...28 KB (4,021 words) - 00:49, 9 November 2022
- marisco, French bouillabaisse, Italian cacciucco, Portuguese caldeirada and many other seafood dishes. Shrimp are marketed according to size ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 20:04, 21 April 2023
- some 4000 years ago. In 1605, the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernández ... on matters concerning Ni-Vanuatu culture and language. Since 1994, ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
