Talk:Lusophone

message: It's called Lusofonia in Portuguese... FilipeS 21:30, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but there's no word "Lusophony" in English, just as there is no "Anglophony" or "Francophony."  Just checked the Oxford English Dictionary.  "Lusophony" as a word only seems to exist in the English-language Wikipedia, which is very embarrassing for all of us. It's a false translation. The correct term in English would be "Lusophone world." 05:42, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Lusosphere or Lusophony?

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message: The intro defines Lusophonia as "countries and territories that recognize Portuguese as an official language."  The map caption says "Nations in which Portuguese is an official language (de facto or de jure). Lusophone countries are a subset of those where Portuguese is the main native language."   If this intends to make a distinction between Lusophonia and Lusophone countries, that might not be very clear or helpful.--142.163.195.187 (talk) 16:22, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  map caption question 

message: What do we call the community of Portuguese speakers who live in places other than the "10 sovereign states and territories that recognize Portuguese as an official language"?
Also, do Mozambicans, East Timorese, Brazilians, consider themselves as sharing a common ethnicity?  Which is the given definition of "ethnolinguistic".  --142.163.195.187 (talk) 16:32, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Answer to the second question: an ethnolinguistic group is a common "type" of ethnic group whose members primarily self-identify with the group because of a shared language, NB the term can only be used for a single ethnic group. The usage in the lead is wrong (@142.163.195.187: well spotted). Portuguese speakers in Europe clearly can be called an ethnolinguistic group, because the European speakers self-identify with the ethnic term "Portuguese". But beyond that, the term doesn't work here. People of different ethnic groups (and there are lots of them in the Lusophone world) do not comprise an "ethnolinguistic group" just because they share a common first or second language for various historcal reasons. –Austronesier (talk) 19:59, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: We call them the community of Portuguese speakers or the Portuguese speaking community. This isn't difficult. --Khajidha (talk) 12:21, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portuguese speakers outside of 'official' countries 

message: Per WP:NOUN, “Lusophone”, as an adjective, is less than ideal as an article title. The English word Lusophony is a tad neologistic, but perhaps we could consider the precedent of Francophonie and simply use “Lusofonia”. Thoughts? Barnards.tar.gz (talk) 13:34, 14 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Francophone is a redirect to Geographical distribution of French speakers. Francophonie is an article. Since Lusophone has became a redirect to Geographical distribution of Portuguese speakers, we could have both but as redirects to said article. Oğuzlar 13:46, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

text: If this redirect will ever return to an article, then it should be renamed to Lusofonia. Just like it's french counterpart Lusophonie. Oğuzlar 15:25, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename to Lusofonia?