With 240 Million Speakers Portuguese Wishes to Become a Global Language Comments for With 240 Million Speakers Portuguese Wishes to Become a Global Language at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:18:55 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 MANY ACCENTS, NO DIALECTS http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/9689/1/#pc_15934 There is NO dialect in Brazil, certainly not in the main stream of the culture. Portuguese dialects may exist among some of the Atlantic islands which used to belong to the Portuguese Empire... - AUGUSTUS Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:21:35 +0100 did not earler this year http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/9689/1/#pc_15929 brazil proclamed it spoke brazalaria not pourtugues and 240 million divided into 6.9 billion is a very small number in other parts of the world other countries have broken dielects with more people speaking it - Forrest Allen Brown Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:21:14 +0100 Yet, the overwheming majority of such 240 milion individuals who speak Portuguese - just ... http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/9689/1/#pc_15927 Because ONLY 50 million of those Portuguese speakers world-wide are NOT Brazilians, and because the sudden prominence of the Portuguese language is clearly a reflection of the recent rise of the Brazilian economy along with the sheer size of its population, suggest that the status of the language should be hardly categorized (or addressed) as an international event, except of course for the case of PORTUGAL; after all, they represent the very source of the entire culture, which they managed to spread during their relatively short period of Glory... My point being, that the importance of the Portuguese language would be more realistically addressed as a strictly "Luso-Brazilian" issue... - AUGUSTUS Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:49:45 +0100