Search results for "Portuguese language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- long colonization of the New World. Language, music, and cuisine are ... one of two sources: Either the Aymara language lima-limaq (meaning "yellow ...19 KB (3,062 words) - 21:54, 31 January 2024
- the Yoruba derived from the Yoruba language. In Spanish and Portuguese ... merely to describe speakers of the Yoruba language. The first documented use ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved ... of the population speaks an indigenous language, those tongues (of which ...47 KB (6,955 words) - 19:42, 4 March 2024
- 7.28% White (mostly British and Portuguese), 5.38% Multiracial (mostly ... Islands for many years, the dominant language has been an English-based ...19 KB (2,753 words) - 02:45, 22 November 2023
- After issuing edicts to expel all Portuguese missionaries and traders from Japan in 1639, the Tokugawa shogunate enforced kaikin (海禁, "maritime ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- the conservation of their culture and language, given the traditional predominance ... In terms of first language learned (in infancy), the 2001 census reported ...44 KB (6,520 words) - 21:16, 9 November 2022
- A Mis Amigos (sung in Spanish and [[Portuguese language| Portuguese]]) in 1959, and More Cole Español in 1962. A Mis Amigos ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- Ragusa was one of the centers of Croatian language, literature, and scientific ... The South Slav language was introduced into literature, which flourished ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 17:17, 12 February 2024
- from Venezuela. Today, the Trinidadian Portuguese population includes both ... English is the country's only official language, but Bhojpuri ...48 KB (7,150 words) - 17:39, 2 May 2023
- numerous Irish, Italian, German, and Portuguese immigrants, of which the first two groups were totally Catholic, and some Portuguese and Germans ...32 KB (4,608 words) - 04:12, 4 November 2022
- theory for the practical needs of Portuguese caravel expeditions. During the Renaissance, Copernicus proposed a heliocentric model of the Solar ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- Granada was a factor in the Spanish and Portuguese drive to acquire overseas ... robbing the “Indians of their language, their culture, and their ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 20:23, 1 November 2023
- on West Africa allowing the spread of its language, laws and customs along ... (Djata). Combined in the rapidly spoken language of the Mandinka, the names ...52 KB (8,425 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- suggest that Brigid's mother was in fact Portuguese, kidnapped by Irish pirates and brought to Ireland to work as a slave in much the same way as ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- botany. He possessed a natural gift for language, teaching himself Latin. ... such as difficulty learning the language or danger to life. Finally ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- Aceh is a diverse region occupied by several ethnic and language groups ... The Acehnese language (Basa Aceh) is widely spoken within the Acehnese ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 07:32, 14 June 2023
- In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor in service to the Spanish King, became the first European to navigate the strait--later named ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 23:33, 30 April 2023
- Gabon's first confirmed European visitors were Portuguese traders ... elsewhere in Africa. French, the official language, is a unifying force. More ...23 KB (3,343 words) - 07:34, 15 April 2024
- Alexandria’s fortunes until the Portuguese discovered a sea route ... Senghor University, a private, French-language, international university ...24 KB (3,570 words) - 06:37, 20 July 2023
- be known as Côte d'Ivoire in every language, without the hyphen, contravening ... d'Ivoire before the arrival of Portuguese ships in the 1460s. The ...28 KB (4,077 words) - 07:33, 12 January 2024
