Brazilian Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese is a form of the Portuguese language used mostly in Brazil. It is spoken by most of the 180 million inhabitants of Brazil. Standard Brazilian Portuguese is strongly influenced by the dialects of the many Brazilian regions. It is also spoken through immigrants and their descendants in Canada, United States, Portugal, and Japan — where it is spoken by Japanese-Brazilian migrants.

Spelling

Brazilian Portuguese has different spelling from European and African Portuguese, which usually consists on "simplified" letter combinations. For example, the words for "action" and "actual" in Brazilian Portuguese are "ação" and "atual", whereas in European Portuguese, they would be "acção" and "actual". Most of these differences in spelling are to be eliminated. For further information on this, see Written varieties of the Portuguese language.

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