With 240 Million Speakers Portuguese Wishes to Become a Global Language

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 4 out of 4 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:36:17 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 Yeah, but you can say the same about English http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/9689/1/#pc_22156 True. Nearly 80% Portuguese speakers live in Brazil. And overall, over 80% of native speakers do live in Brazil. HOWEVER, you can same the same about English. Nearly 70% of Native English Speakers live in the United States. There are only six primarily English-Speaking countries( I don't count Caribbean nations cause they speak English-based Creoles) and Portuguese is actually better than English considering the fact that Portuguese comes from the language of the Roman Empire, Latin, whereas English is descended from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic. Plus, the international prominance of English is largely do to the U.S. being a superpower. So, if Portuguese were to gain international prominance because of Brazil's economy growing then what's wrong with that? - Robert Alvarez Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:50:46 +0100 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