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Simple English; Svenska; ไทย ... Pages in category "People from Maputo" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect ...
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]
According to the 1997 census, [2] 40% of the population of Mozambique spoke Portuguese. 9% spoke it at home, and 6.5% considered Portuguese to be their mother tongue. According to the general population survey taken in 2017, Portuguese is now spoken natively by 16.6% of the population aged 5 and older (or 3,686,890) and by one in every five people aged 15 t
Projections indicate over 600 Germanic words in Portuguese, [citation needed] with a tendency to increase due to English, German and other modern influences. Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other languages. Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Galician words from a different ...
Satellite image. At 309,475 sq mi ... around 50% of Maputo speaks Portuguese as a native language. ... Girls enrollment increased from 3 million in 2002 to 4.1 ...
abafadores - earmuffs/headphones; abençoado - blessed; aberta - opened; abraço - hug; absolutamente - absolutely; acabado - finished; acabar - to end; acalma - calm down
The colonial era Portuguese naturalist, Manuel Galvao da Silva for example, described iron mines of the Makua people. [14] Similarly, the French explorer Eugene de Froberville summarized the indigenous Makua iron manufacturing methods from iron ore, where the Makua people extracted the metal by processing the ore in a wood-burning hearth as a ...