Search results
Jul 15, 2021 · The Portuguese first took an interest in East Africa from the beginning of the 16th century as their empire spread eastwards across the Indian Ocean. Trade in the region was already well-established and carried out by Africans, Indians, and Arabs. Attacks on the trading cities of the Swahili Coast and the Kingdom of Mutapa by the Portuguese did ...
- Mark Cartwright
Portuguese is spoken in a number of African countries and is the official language in six African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea. There are Portuguese-speaking communities in most countries of Southern Africa, a mixture of Portuguese settlers and Angolans and Mozambicans who left their countries during the civil wars. A ...
People also ask
What language is spoken in Africa?
What languages are spoken in Portugal?
Which countries speak Portuguese?
Does Guinea-Bissau speak Portuguese?
Emerging from medieval Galician-Portuguese, the language spread across different regions and continents, mingling with indigenous languages and foreign tongues. European Portuguese. European Portuguese, spoken in Portugal, boasts a rich history that has influenced its linguistic evolution. The dialect is known for its elegance and precise ...
- Angola. Before Diego Cão arrived in the 15 century, Angola was part of the Kongo Kingdom. The Kongo Kingdom was home to many African tribes and communities.
- Cape Verde. The island group that makes up Cape Verde today was uninhabited until the 15 century. In 1456, Prince Henry the Navigator sent Portuguese explorers to Africa’s west coast in search of undiscovered land.
- Guinea-Bissau. The origins of Guinea-Bissau stretch beyond Portuguese rule. It was once part of the Kaabu Empire and a smaller part of the Mali Empire. These were great African empires with centuries of history and diverse cultures and languages.
- Mozambique. Between the first and fifth centuries AD, the land that makes up today’s Mozambique was inhabited by Bantu-speaking communities. Between the seventh and eleventh centuries, Swahili communities arrived and a distinct Swahili culture and language emerged.
May 17, 2021 · The focus of my research project is the investigation of nodal Portuguese presence in West and Central Africa and, with the nodes being manifested in exported, global influences during the 16th and 17th centuries. More specifically, I am aiming to discover examples of how Portuguese-African relations transformed over the course of two centuries ...
Jul 12, 2021 · Portuguese Angola in southwest Africa was the first European colony on that continent. While settlement from 1571 proved problematic in the interior, the Portuguese did obtain a large number of slaves which they shipped to their Atlantic island colonies and to Portuguese Brazil right up to the end of the Atlantic slave trade in the 19th century ...
Reviewed by Marie-Eve Bouchard, Stockholm University The Portuguese Language Continuum in Africa and Brazil, edited by Laura Álvarez López, Perpétua Gonçalves, and Juanito Ornelas de Avelar, is the latest volume in the book series Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, by John Benjamin Publishing Company.
