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Portuguese orthography is based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel height, nasalization, and other sound changes. The diaeresis was abolished by the last Orthography Agreement.
In 1911, the newly formed Portuguese Republic, concerned with improving the literacy of its citizens, charged a commission of philologists with defining a standard orthography for Portuguese. The result was what has come to be known in Portugal as the orthographic reform of Gonçalves Viana.
A reformed Portuguese orthography (nova ortografia), in which words were spelled more in accordance with their pronunciation, was adopted is Portugal in 1916. A slightly modified form was adopted in Brazil in 1943 and revised in 1970.
The Orthographic Agreement of 1990 intends to establish a single official orthography for the Portuguese language and thus to improve its international status, putting an end to the existence of two official orthographic norms: one in Brazil and another in the remaining Portuguese-speaking countries.
Apr 25, 2024 · Typical of the Portuguese sound system is the use of nasal vowels, indicated in the orthography by m or n following the vowel (e.g., sim ‘yes,’ bem ‘well’) or by the use of a tilde (∼) over the vowel ( mão ‘hand,’ nação ‘nation’). In grammar its verb system is quite different from that of Spanish.
The Common Orthographic Vocabulary of the Portuguese Language (VOC) is the platform upon which the instruments that legally determine the orthography of the Portuguese language are based.
Oct 26, 2023 · Portuguese orthography is close to the Latin one, although not so close as French is. Written, it is very similar to Italian. A text in Portuguese is easy to read, and the reader will have trouble only with the letters x, e and o.
