European Portuguese

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European Portuguese (Portuguese: português europeu, pronounced [puɾtuˈɣez ewɾuˈpew]), also known as Lusitanian Portuguese (Portuguese: português lusitano) or as Portugal Portuguese (Portuguese: português de Portugal), is a dialect of the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal. The word "European" was chosen to avoid the reduplication of "Portuguese Portuguese" ("português português") as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese. "Peninsular Portuguese" (Portuguese: português peninsular) and "Iberian Portuguese" (Portuguese: português ibérico) are sometimes used, but they implicitly exclude the varieties of Portuguese spoken in Madeira and the Azores. Portuguese is a pluricentric language; it is the same language with several interacting codified standard forms in many countries. Portuguese is a Romance language with Celtic, Germanic, Greek, and Arabic influence. It was spoken in the Iberian Peninsula before as Galician-Portuguese. With the formation of Portugal as a country in the 12th century, the...

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