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While Cape Verdean Creole is the mother tongue of nearly all the population in Cape Verde, Portuguese is the official language.Creole is, therefore, used colloquially, in everyday usage, while Portuguese is used in official situations, at schools, in the media, etc. Portuguese and Creole live in a state of diglossia, meaning that Portuguese is typically used in formal situations, in the media ...
Detail of a gold glass medallion with a portrait of a family, from Alexandria (Roman Egypt), 3rd–4th century (Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia) [7]. One of the primary functions of the family involves providing a framework for the production and reproduction of persons biologically and socially.
Ele sempre nos vê na igreja. Ele sempre vê a gente na igreja./Ele sempre nos vê na igreja. Ele vê nós na igreja sempre./Ele sempre vê nós na igreja. He always sees us at church. (5) Indefinite pronouns Todos me dizem a verdade. Todo mundo me fala/diz a verdade. Todo mundo fala/diz a verdade p'ra mim/eu. Everyone tells me the truth.
In Portuguese, patronymics are surnames such as Henriques, Pires, Rodrigues, Lopes, Nunes, Mendes, Fernandes, Gonçalves, Esteves and Álvares, where the ending -es means (son of). Some surnames that originated in this way do not end in es; instead they end in iz, like Muniz (son of Monio) and Ruiz (son of Ruy), or ins, like Martins (son of ...
The Portuguese Wikipedia (Portuguese: Wikipédia em português) is the Portuguese-language edition of Wikipedia (written Wikipédia, in Portuguese), the free ...
A late-16th-century English illustration of a witch feeding her familiars. In European folklore of the medieval and early modern periods, familiars (strictly familiar spirits, as "familiar" also meant just "close friend" or companion, and may be seen in the scientific name for dog, Canis familiaris) were believed to be supernatural entities, interdimensional beings, or spiritual guardians that ...
Portuguese newspapers [2]; Newspaper Frequency Est. Headquarters Circulation [a] Owner Website National newspapers: A Bola: sports, daily: 1945: Lisbon — Ringier: abola.pt
In the Middle Ages, a familiaris (plural familiares), more formally a familiaris regis ("familiar of the king") or familiaris curiae [1] ("of the court"), was, in the words of the historian W. L. Warren, "an intimate, a familiar resident or visitor in the [royal] household, a member of the familia, that wider family which embraces servants, confidents, and close associates."