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2. Porglish - Wikipedia

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   Porglish or Portuglish (referred to in Portuguese as portinglês – Brazilian: [pɔʁtʃĩˈɡles], European: [puɾtĩˈɡleʃ] – or portunglês – pt-BR: [poʁtũˈɡles], pt-PT: [puɾtũˈɡleʃ]) is the various types of language contact between Portuguese and English which have occurred in regions where the two languages coexist.

3. English as She Is Spoke - Wikipedia

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   The Portuguese–French phrase book is apparently a competent work, without the defects that characterize the Portuguese–English one. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The title English as She Is Spoke was given to the book in its 1883 republication, but the phrase does not appear in the original phrasebook, nor does the word "spoke".

4. Forced conversion - Wikipedia

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   The Portuguese carried out the Christianisation of Goa in India in the 16th and 17th centuries. The majority of the natives of Goa had converted to Christianity by the end of the 16th century. The Portuguese rulers had implemented state policies encouraging and even rewarding conversions among Hindu subjects. The rapid rise of converts in Goa ...

5. Manueline Ordinances - Wikipedia

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   The Manueline Ordinances (Portuguese: Ordenações Manuelinas) were an exhaustive compilation of the entire legal system in Portugal and its colonial possessions, that was issued in 1512 by King Manuel I as part of his reform of the public administration. The Manueline Ordinances saw three different revisions (known as the "first system ...

6. Wikipedia : Translation/*/Lang/pt

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   Translation In Progress ———— → Sam the Kid ———— Translation status: Stage 2 : In Progress Comment: Quite a long article in Portuguese, but a very short one in English and a discography thats portuguese which i want to make in english Requested by: Peterm1991 22:01, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

7. Persecution of Jews and Muslims by Manuel I of Portugal

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   Expulsion of the Jews in 1497, in a 1917 watercolour by Alfredo Roque Gameiro. On 5 December 1496, King Manuel I of Portugal decreed that all Jews must convert to Catholicism or leave the country, in order to satisfy a request by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain during the negotiations of the contract of marriage between himself and their eldest daughter Isabella, Princess of Asturias, as an ...

8. List of English words of Portuguese origin - Wikipedia

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   The present Portuguese word dodô ("dodo") is of English origin. The Portuguese word doudo or doido may itself be a loanword from Old English (cp. English "dolt") [34] Embarrass from Portuguese embaraçar (same meaning; also to tangle – string or rope), from em + baraço (archaic for "rope") [35] Emu from ema (= "rhea") [36]

9. Portuguese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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   In addition to the conversion of many Germanic endings into Romance or Latin endings, the names had phonetic adaptations [200] such as the change of word stress from the first to the penultimate syllable, the conversion of most [þ] into [t] or [d] and the conversion of [h] into [k] before a consonant. [W] was initially preserved, although ...